Join us for the first
Door County Treasure Hunt September 30!
Discover new wonders in Northern Door in a day filled with
exploration and fun with friends and family! Search for treasures with
your team using your clue booklet. At the end of the day, join other
treasure hunters at the idyllic Sawyer Farms in Egg Harbor for an
evening of food, drink, music, prizes, and a photo display of the day.

The Peninsula Pulse is Door
County’s resource for news,
arts and entertainment. It is published
weekly and claims a staff of writers,
editors, designers, photographers and
salespeople deeply entwined with the ethic
of the peninsula and strives to be not just
a reflection of its community, but a driving
force of change and self-examination.

The regular deadline for letters to the editor,
press releases, happenings, and gallery listing
updates is noon on Friday for the following
Friday issue. The regular deadline for line
classifieds is noon on Tuesday.
SUBSCRIBE Peninsula Pulse is available for free

About This Year’s Hal Prize
It is difficult for me to believe that it has
been 19 years since Tom McKenzie (who
co-founded the Peninsula Pulse with Dave
Eliot) walked into my bookstore to inform
me that the Pulse was planning an annual
literary contest named after my father.
My father had died just a few months
prior and, though I was surprised by
Tom’s request, I knew how pleased (and
embarrassed) my father would be with the
honor. My dad was very fond of Tom and
looked forward to the delivery of each issue
of the Pulse, usually by Tom personally,
where they would share thoughts on
writing, literature and the current issue.
Through the years, the growth of the
contest moved through several changes,
including a name change and the addition
of photography and nonfiction as prize
categories. One of the most significant
steps forward was the addition of Write
On, Door County as a collaborator. With
this addition, many of the possibilities we
had long imagined became possible. Their

generous donation of weeklong stays at the
Write On retreat house in Juddville allowed
us to attract nationally recognized authors
to serve as judges for the contest. The same
donation by Write On for contest winners
in each of the writing categories allowed
us to broaden our marketing efforts and
attract entries from throughout the United
States.
This year’s contest brings two new
steps in our continuing efforts to improve
and grow The Hal Prize. Notably, Nicolet
National Bank made a generous donation of
support, which has allowed us to broaden
the cash prizes we offer winning entries. In
combination with other prizes provided by
businesses – particularly the handcrafted
pottery mugs created by Jeanne and Dave
Aurelius of Clay Bay Pottery for each of the
first place winners – we feel the contest is
now attractive to all levels of experience.
The other notable change this year was
the poetry editors of the cream city review
graciously agreeing to serve as final judges

for the poetry portion of the contest. Small
magazines and presses are vital for writers,
whether beginning or experienced. They
provide the opportunity to be published,
to reach an audience, and to demonstrate
to publishers a track record of successful
publication. We are fortunate to have a
small journal of cream city’s caliber and
reputation in our state. If you haven’t
picked up an issue, I encourage you –
whether you are a writer or a reader – to
do so or even subscribe. They deserve your
support.
As a final note: with the publication
of this year’s Hal Prize issue, next year’s
contest begins! Writers and photographers,
you are now formally notified: start
working on your entries for the 2018 Hal
Prize – the submission process remains
the same and the website is ready to
begin accepting your creative efforts
(TheHalPrize.com).

Steve Grutzmacher

This annual issue honors a man whose
passion for writing and teaching the
craft of writing spanned his lifetime.
While his specialty was the English
Romantic period, particularly William
Wordsworth, he also loved reading (and
re-reading) James Bond novels. A widely
published poet, he was also a regular
columnist for the Door County Advocate
when it was privately owned – he even
convinced his editor to allow him to
cover the Chicago Cubs, which afforded
him several trips each season to Wrigley
Field, where he became good friends
with other sports writers from far larger
newspapers.
His greatest passion, however,
was teaching writing. As an English
professor at Carthage College (then in
Carthage, Illinois), Knox College, and
Parson College he influenced hundreds
of undergraduate writers. Later, as
vice president for academic affairs at
the University of Tampa and dean of
students at Beloit College, he continued
to teach the freshman English courses,
though these courses were not part of his
job description.
In Door County, he and his wife,
Marge, opened Passtimes Books, where
he enjoyed discussing literature with
other avid readers. And he continued
teaching writing, both at The Clearing
and Northeast Wisconsin Technical
College. Several of these students later
brought him manuscripts which he
helped edit into finished books.
His encouragement and gentle,
though pointed, criticism influenced
innumerable students and community
members. The Peninsula Pulse, along
with Write On, Door County, look
to continue in the same spirit by
encouraging writers and photographers
of all skill levels with The Hal Prize.

2017 Sponsors

POETRY

The Peninsula Pulse would like to thank
the generous businesses and individuals
that donated prizes to this year’s Hal Prize.
Each deserves our salute for their support
of the literary and photography community!

Honorable
“Let Me Tell You a Story About Benches” by Kathleen Phillips
“On Coming Home from the Conference” by Joanne Nelson

PHOTOGRAPHY
1st

“Surf Sisters” by Laura Joeckel

2nd

Write On, Door County
focuses on the importance
of writing and reading
and the ability of people
to connect through
stories. The nonprofit provides a beautiful
and inspiring retreat for writers on 39 acres
in Juddville, and conducts classes,
programs and special events throughout the
county for all ages and experience levels.
For more information about Write On, visit
writeondoorcounty.org or call 920.868.1457.
Nicolet National Bank
was founded in 2000
with the goal of
becoming a bank that creates sustained
value for our customers, shareholders and
employees. Nicolet offers commercial
banking, personal banking and wealth
management services. Nicolet believes in
real people having real conversations to
create real solutions. For more information
about Nicolet Bank, please visit our eight
Door County offices, call 800.369.0226 or
visit nicoletbank.com.
Peninsula School of Art
provides enriching,
educational experiences
to participants of all ages
and abilities by offering
year-round workshops, lectures, exhibits
and family-friendly events for students of
all ages and abilities. The first place winner
of the photography contest will partake in a
class at the nationally recognized school.
For more information about Peninsula
School of Art, visit peninsulaschoolofart.
org or call 920.868.3455.
David and Jeanne
Aurelius, owners of Clay
Bay Pottery, have
generously donated both
time and skill to the
literary and photography contest through
their production of customized pottery for
contest winners. In past years, Clay Bay
has donated both commemorative plates
and mugs to first place winners – much
prettier and more functional than your
average trophy! To contact Clay Bay
Pottery, located just south of Ellison Bay on
Highway 42, call 920.854.5027.
Sharon Grutzmacher & Roger Bergen
(daughter and son-in-law of Hal
Grutzmacher) are pleased to be able to
assist with the cash awards for the first
place winners. Sharon is the executive
director of the Peninsula Music Festival
and Roger is the manager of Lampert
Lumber, Sister Bay.

For 65 years, the Peninsula
Music Festival (PMF) has
presented nine different
symphonic concerts in three
weeks each August. Under the baton of
Victor Yampolsky, professional musicians
come from America’s finest orchestras to
present the concerts. The PMF performs in
the Door Community Auditorium in Fish
Creek from Aug. 1 – 19. Many thanks to
PMF for donating tickets. Order tickets by
phone at 920.854.4060 or online at
musicfestival.com.

THE HAL PRIZE 2017

2017 Winners

Al Johnson’s
Swedish
Restaurant &
Butik in Sister Bay is the home of Swedish
pancakes, goats grazing on the green sod
roof, and Stabbur, the new Scandinavian
beer garden. The entire Johnson family was
a great friend to well-known Door County
writer Norbert Blei, whose “writing coop”
now resides on the Write On, Door County
property in Juddville. Visit aljohnsons.com
for more information.
Located in the heart of Fish
Creek, the Peninsula
Bookman features new,
used and rare books. They
also feature an extensive
selection of books about
Door County and by Door County authors
and are noted for hosting book release and
autographing events, and their ongoing
support of local writers and Write On, Door
County. For more information, visit
peninsulabookman.com or call
920.868.1467.
For 32 years, Seaquist
Orchards Farm Market
has been welcoming
customers with their own
cherries and apples and
wonderful, locally processed fruit and
cider. Located two miles north of Sister Bay
on Hwy. 42, the Market is open from
mid-May through October. Seaquist
Orchards Farm Market – where family and
farming mean everything. For more
information, visit seaquistorchards.com or
call 920.854.4199.
Door County Living,
sister publication of the
Peninsula Pulse, is a free
magazine published five times a year.
Paper Boy is Door County’s
premier delivery and
distribution service, serving
more than 700 locations
weekly. It, too, is a sister operation of the
Peninsula Pulse.
Thank you to all!

The Process
Every year since 1998, The Hal Prize
poetry, prose and photography contest has
started the same way: with an invitation.
It is an invitation we extend to people of
all ages, backgrounds and artistic abilities,
encouraging them to submit stories,
photographs and poems for a chance to
be published in our annual literary issue.
As we celebrate the 20th issue of The
Hal Prize, we also celebrate the fact that
its necessary evolutions over the past
two decades (online-only acceptance of
submissions, for one) have only contributed
to the contest’s growth in the Midwest
literary scene.
One of the ways we keep The Hal Prize
fresh and exciting is through selection
of new judges every year, allowing for
diverse backgrounds and perspectives
that influence the final publication. When
compiling a list of prospective judges, we
ask ourselves: who are the storytellers,
photographers and poets whose work we
seek out and cherish in our daily lives?
Jerod Santek, the executive director
of Write On, Door County, drew from
his professional experiences working
with novelist and English professor
David Haynes. Haynes is also founder
and director of Kimbilio, a community

of writers and scholars dedicated to
developing, empowering and sustaining
fiction writers from the African diaspora
and their stories. As promoters of new and
established writers, it was a mission we felt
mirrored our own.
Peninsula Pulse sales rep Steve
Grutzmacher, whose father Hal is the
namesake of this contest, recalled the
early days of his own Door County literary
journal, the Peninsula Review, and was
reminded of the work of Mary Zane Allen, a
prose lover who started the literary journal
cream city review at the University of
Wisconsin – Milwaukee in 1975. In the
more than 40 years since the first issue
hit newsstands, the nonprofit journal has
published works by distinguished writers
such as Charles Bukowski, Billy Collins,
Robert Olen Butler, Ted Kooser, Audre
Lorde and Adrienne Rich. Steve reached
out to cream city review and formed a
partnership in which the publication’s
poetry team guest judged our Hal Prize
poetry contest.
The final piece of the prose-judging
puzzle was finding an individual with
a passion for documenting and sharing
stories of people and places of the real
world. I was immediately drawn to the idea

of one of Wisconsin Public Radio’s most
engaging voices: Erika Janik, executive
producer of Wisconsin Life. Janik is an
author and historian who spends her
days sharing the humorous, surprising
and emotional stories of the people who
call this state home. Her thoughtful
commentary on stories both uplifting
and tragic made her the perfect fit for the
nonfiction job.
With these judges lined up, it was
time to consider the photography judge
whose background and perspective
would inform the final look of the 2017
Hal Prize publication. When we put out
the call for photography submissions, we
emphasized our desire to see photos of
people and places. This mission guided
us on our quest to find a photographer
who did the same, and we discovered it in
Milwaukee artist and photographer Kevin
Miyazaki. Among his most recent work
on people and institutions is Perimeter,
a photography collection-turned-book on
the human connection to the Great Lakes.
The project, commissioned by the Haggerty
Museum of Art, took Miyazaki on a tour
of Lake Michigan’s perimeter where he
photographed nearly 300 people with

connections to the fresh water lake, from
dockworkers to surfers.
Prior to the May 1 submission deadline,
these judges shared with me the journeys
they each took to become successful
authors, poets and photographers for
feature articles in the Pulse. When the
contest closed and our pre-screening
committee viewed and selected finalists
from the 429 submissions we received this
year, the judges stepped in to read (or in
Miyazaki’s case, view) these finalists, make
their selections and provide thoughtful
commentary on why the chosen prose or
photos captured their attention.
What you hold in your hands is the
culmination of a year’s worth of effort from
the Hal Prize administrators, judges and
sponsors, and the hundreds of individuals
from across the country who shared their
creative efforts with us. On behalf of The
Hal Prize organizers and the Peninsula
Pulse, thank you for reading and enjoy this,
our 20th annual Hal Prize.

Alyssa Skiba,
Contest Administrator

The Judges
POETRY

FICTION

PHOTOGRAPHY

David Haynes is a Professor of English at
Southern Methodist University and since
1996 has taught with the MFA Program for
Writers at Warren Wilson College. He is the
author of seven novels for adults and five
books for younger readers. His most recent
novel is A Star in the Face of the Sky. He is
the founder and director of Kimbilio.

Kevin J. Miyazaki’s artwork addresses
issues of family history and ethnicity. His
photographs have been shown nationally,
and in Wisconsin at the Madison Museum
of Contemporary Art, the University
of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, St. Norbert
College and the James Watrous Gallery in
Madison. Photographs from his exhibition,
Perimeter, commissioned by the Haggerty
Museum of Art at Marquette University,
were published as a monograph by the
Wisconsin Historical Society Press in
2014. Miyazaki’s portrait, food and travel
assignments have taken him to 30 states
and more than 20 countries, for clients
including The New York Times, AARP,
Travel + Leisure, Architectural Digest and
Martha Stewart Living.

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The Poetry Editors of cream city review
cream city review, started in 1975 by
Mary Zane Allen, is Milwaukee’s leading
literary journal devoted to publishing
memorable and energetic pieces that push
the boundaries of literature. Continually
seeking to explore the relationship between
form and content, cream city review
features fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, visual art, reviews of contemporary
literature, and author interviews.
Published biannually, cream city review
is a volunteer-based, nonprofit journal that
has attracted readers and submissions
from around the world. Approximately
4,000 submissions are received each year
from both unpublished and established
writers.
Alessandra Simmons, whose poems
have appeared in Rabbit Catastrophe,
WomenArts Quarterly Journal, Post
Road, Hawaii Pacific Review, The Other
Journal and elsewhere.
Tobias Wray’s poems have appeared or
are forthcoming in Blackbird, Third Coast,
Bellingham Review, North American
Review, American Literary Review and
elsewhere.

Erika Janik is a historian, author and
the Executive Producer of Wisconsin Life
on Wisconsin Public Radio. She is the
author of six books, including Pistols and
Petticoats: 175 Years of Lady Detectives
in Fact and Fiction, A Short History
of Wisconsin, and Odd Wisconsin. Her
work has appeared in Salon, Slate, The
Atlantic, Smithsonian, Edible Milwaukee,
On Wisconsin, Midwest Living, and
The Onion, among others. She holds
master’s degrees in American history
and journalism from the University of
Wisconsin – Madison. Originally from
Redmond, Washington, she now knows
more about Wisconsin than she ever
thought possible.

THE HAL PRIZE 2017

PHOTOGRAPHY
1ST

“Surf Sisters”
by Laura Joeckel

I was amused at the sight of these nuns hoisting
their skirts to cool off in the surf of Monterosso
al Mare, a Cinque Terre resort town in Italy.

“

This terriﬁc travel photograph succeeds on
several levels: The nuns are captured in a nonintrusive manner and we see just enough of
their facial expressions to give it life. The viewer
knows that we’re in Italy by the writing on the
boat. Great use of composition and a telephoto
lens to visually compress the elements. I would
have been excited to have made this picture
while on assignment!

Photography Judge
Kevin J. Miyazaki

2ND

“Chinta’s Love”
by Shannon Thielman

I live in rural Marathon County with my six-year-old son,
where we raise chickens. We travel to Panama every other
year because after having served in the Peace Corps there
from 2002-2003, people in these villages seem like family.
This woman cradles her granddaughter. As is frequently the
case here, the child’s mother is working away from home as
a teacher while the grandparents take care of her children.

“

This photograph is a winner because it’s both touching and
informative. Good environmental portraiture is respectful and
provides information about the subjects. This photograph does
just that via clothing, posture, the home environment. Effective
use of soft, pleasing light.

Kevin J. Miyazaki

“New Friend”
by Ron Maloney
While taking a swim at the Murphy Park
beach, this friendly pooch decided to
come over and say hi.

“

This is a lively, fun photograph that
immediately registers with the viewer. But
it also has terriﬁc composition and lots
of information and details, the closer you
look. Great use of camera position within
the water setting. The photographer truly
put themselves into this experience.

In my neighbor’s yard, currants glisten red
like glass beads full of juice, heavy enough to pull down
the woody branches their clusters cling to, the branches that
bow down to lay their fruit on the ground.
Why have the rabbits not eaten them? Are they
too easy a snack? Or too sour? Instead the rabbits
find their way into my garden to eat the scratchy
leaves of my beanstalks. Idiots.
I’ve pulled over a chair, knowing right away that
bending is nothing my old back will tolerate.
The dog who loves raspberries isn’t interested
in the ruby globes either. I eat a few. Tart juice is little
reward for this effort. No satisfying pulp like a grape.
Just seeds. Small, sand-like seeds.
But here I am on a serene Sunday morning pulling at
the ripe bunches, aiming to fill a five-quart pail.
I pick, not because I want to, but because my neighbor,
in remembrance of his mother who insisted each summer
I take as many as I like, must have felt, a year after her death,
that he needed to make the same offer.
So I pick, not needing any of them or the jars of jelly
I will make. And yet, somehow, I am also not able to leave
a cluster here or there on the branch. I stand now, bucket full,
ready to head home, and I stop. Just a few more.
I reach for one last cluster that seems to have surrendered
itself to the sun, claret light radiating through each perfect orb.
Seems so senseless to let them wither and dry.
Someone ought to want them.

Dawn Hogue’s poetry has appeared in Stoneboat Literary
Journal, Making it Speak: Poets & Artists in Cahoots, and
Intersections: Art and Poetry. She taught high school English
for 25 years and is currently a writing tutor for Johns
Hopkins University’s Center for Talented Youth. Find more
about her at dawnhogue.com.

“

In direct, clear language ‘The Obligation’ draws a scene of
surprising depth. The speaker of the poem carries out a
mundane task that reveals how we relate to others. With lines
as lush and insistent as the fruit they describe, this poem
serves up the simple solitude of circumstance and, in the last
line in particular, transcends the poem to implicate the reader.

Poetry Judges Alessandra Simmons
and Tobias Wray, cream city review

Found this fellow on parsley in a community garden plot in Algoma.
Initially took him as some sort of green stained monarch. They have
voracious appetites and love them some Apiaceae.

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Honey-bees point their co-workers toward food,
dancing to show which way to fly, and for how long.
Sometimes you can forget how to speak,
if you pass your days in silence.
An old man from Mexico with Alzheimer’s
was shot dead by a cop in California
who assumed that he was armed. In fact,
the object in his pocket was a wooden crucifix.
A sunflower’s face is made of hundreds
of tiny flowerets inside the disk.
When Tranströmer’s right hand was paralyzed by a stroke,
he taught himself to play piano with the left.

The people who built Stonehenge and other Neolithic
monuments and tombs were most likely teenagers.
Less than 60 years after the first manned aircraft flew
for just three seconds, astronauts were orbiting the earth.
The human eye relaxes when gazing at distant objects
in the landscape, and finds the color green most restful.
After being temporarily blinded in a factory accident,
John Muir went on a thousand-mile walk.
When my heart stops, I do not want to be
resuscitated. I want to close the door quietly, and go.
Finback whale-speech travels further than that of any
other mammal: a hundred miles underwater, maybe more.
Ice has an entire sonic repertoire—it can sound
like explosions or gunshots, or music from another world.

“

‘Things I Learned This Month’ performs a careful study of
the original Stafford poem in formal approach, but reaches
for a more lyrical understanding of the information we
receive. Similar to Stafford, the speaker here pauses amidst
this factual recounting to contemplate how they would like to
die. These lessons braid together to tell us something about
the nature of accumulation and time itself. The facts of life
are undeniable, but poems like this one help us bear them.

Poetry Judges Alessandra Simmons
and Tobias Wray, cream city review

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Catherine Jagoe is a Pushcart Prize winner and the
author of Bloodroot, which won the 2016 Settlement House
American Poetry Prize and the Council for Wisconsin
Writers Edna Meudt Poetry Book Award. She also has
three poetry chapbooks: News from the North, Casting Off,
and What the Sad Say.

Bernstein’s
Shostakovich
the concentric grooves of the record capturing
in tiny microscopic bumps and valleys
the actual physical analog of their glorious sound,
like a child’s hands pressed into the hardening cement of time.
As this world teeters on the brink—
global warming, rising seas, overpopulation,
threats of pandemics, terrorist atrocities, nuclear war—
it is difficult not to see that our civilization
will soon go the way of all previous civilizations.
In the aftermath of Armageddon, all our old technologies useless—
computers mute boxes, phones, laptops, and TVs blank mysteries,
I imagine survivors hoarding books, hunting for old vinyl records,
perhaps a group huddled over a fire in the far north
with this Shostakovich Fifth,
someone turning it by hand, a pencil for a spindle,
a filed nail for a stylus, a paper cone to amplify the sound.
And there, somewhere in the dark future
the world is rushing toward,
Shostakovich echoing in the hills,
the living ghosts of that long-dead orchestra playing on,
Bernstein at the podium,
dapper even in death.

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the timpanist a clatter of bones—
but here is their Shostakovich Fifth pressed into vinyl,
recorded in 1959,
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THE HAL PRIZE 2017

PHOTOGRAPHY
NOTABLE
“The Tall Ship Sails
Against A Grey Sky”
by Thomas Jordan
A friend of mine invited me to watch the tall ships
out on the water in full sail before they entered
Sturgeon Bay. A beautiful day with plenty of
sunshine and just enough breeze.

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Timothy Walsh’s most recent poetry collections are When
the World Was Rear-Wheel Drive and The Book of Arabella.
His awards include the Grand Prize in the Atlanta Review
International Poetry Competition, the Kurt Vonnegut Fiction
Prize from North American Review, the New Jersey Poets Prize,
and the Wisconsin Academy Fiction Prize. He is the author
of a book of literary criticism, The Dark Matter of Words:
Absence, Unknowing, and Emptiness in Literature (Southern
Illinois University Press) and two other poetry chapbooks,
Wild Apples (Parallel Press) and Blue Lace Colander (Marsh
River Editions). Find more at: timothyawalsh.com.

It would seem that ‘Bernstein’s Shostakovich’ dares to suggest
that beauty is eternal. Through grim calculations that result in
a dystopic future, the speaker hopes that we may yet survive
this delicate dance by having learned to dance at all. Though it
predicts a world that feels empty, the desolate landscape slowly
fills across the poem until it ends where it began, in a resonating
music hall. It is a song that, like the poem’s idea of civilization,
has been recycled and copied over and over. It survives because
it refuses to be silenced.

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POETRY HONORABLE
by Amy Phimister

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Her companion is a white dog with black dots
older than she in dog years,
although she is old and wears her
white hat and matching gloves well.
They both walk stiffly teetering
listing like flooding ships.
Each day at the dock they saunter together,
the bedraggled leash rubbing the concrete boat ramp,
it’s extra-long so he can wander in her wake,
the rope ties them together,
mother ship and lifeboat.
She, slightly bent forward, risks each step,
picking up colored lake stones.
He meanders, sniffing scents of stink fish
and sometimes his haunches shake,
while he eats bones and grass.
A pair, like the earth and sky, sand and water.
They are peaceful as daylight.
Fishermen on the horizon don’t see them,
the queer twosome at the shoreline
black specks in the sand.
Could be a pair of gulls
bobbing bending scavenging the silica.

Amy Phimister has retired to Door
County after several years of working
in Chicago for various corporations.
Writing poetry has become her next
career and she is helped by the great
discussion of her poetry group.

PHOTOGRAPHY HONORABLE
“A Boy and His Dog” by Michael Marit
This is a photograph of my son and dog taking a rest during an afternoon hike. They’re both
displaying similar emotions - fatigue - in their own ways.

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Catherine Jagoe is a Pushcart Prize winner
and the author of Bloodroot, which won the
2016 Settlement House American Poetry
Prize and the Council for Wisconsin Writers
Edna Meudt Poetry Book Award. She also
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Chicken
Clay and I milked the cows for the last
time. Our mother insisted on being in the
barn with her camera, switching out flash
cubes between pictures of us washing the
cows’ udders, slipping on the black rubber
inflations to draw out the milk, dipping
the cows’ teats in an iodine solution, and
pouring milk through a filtered funnel into
the large metal cans we toted to cool in the
stone tub filled with cold water in the milk
house. When she prompted me to smile,
I had no difficulty in doing so. I wouldn’t
miss them. The herd had been good to
our family, but with my father gone, Clay
leaving for Basic in two days, and my going
to Madison in August, selling the cows to a
trusted neighbor was the right thing to do.
Clay didn’t smile so easily, but then he’d
never been the type to smile for photos.
Pictures of him in our mother’s album
showed the sternest face in America’s
Dairyland — not angry or sour, just stern.
She did capture a hint of a smile in one shot
that day when she oohed and ahhed at his
muscles while toting surge bucket of one of
the milking machines.
After milking, we completed the morning
chores but didn’t herd the cows to pasture;
loading them in trailers was easier if we
guided them from stanchions to the walled
ramp at the barn doors. Melvin Zwijacz and
his son Robert, eight years my senior and
certain to one day take over his father’s
operation, arrived soon after the chores.
Though we’d sought to make our job
easier by loading from the barn, cows are
cows — stubborn, prone to urinating or
defecating without warning, massive, and

dumbly strong. Not every cow presented a
problem; Old Plug lumbered easily, her rear
hips swaying slowly, without any prodding.
Some, like the young cow we called SheDevil, proved difficult. She-Devil couldn’t be
milked without positioning a large clamp,
resembling an inverted horseshoe with a
crank at its axis, in front of her rear hips.
Cranked tight, the two halves squeezed to
prevent her from kicking. We didn’t have
the luxury of using the clamp for transport,
and she did her best to do everything but
what we wanted.
Eventually, though, with the aid of
shouts and raised arms, of waving broom
handles and pitchforks, we loaded and
transported all the cows. The job took
hours. The adult cows were easier to load
than the heifers, who hadn’t entered the
barn since we pastured them in the spring.
We collectively worked to close in on each
heifer individually, herding it toward the
barnyard door. Smaller than the cows,
the heifers had spring in their steps. 800
pounds of Holstein trotting toward collision
prompted each of us to step out of a heifer’s
path more than once, requiring us to begin
again our efforts to herd the animal into the
barn and trailer.
We didn’t stop for lunch. By three
o’clock, we’d all sweat through our clothes
and were covered to varying degrees
with chaff, dust, and manure, but we’d
successfully transported 42 adult cows,
24 heifers, and a dozen calves to their new
home. Clay and I stood beneath the light
pole near the asphalt shingled well cover.
Clay, perched on the edge of the lid, didn’t

look as tired as I felt. As Melvin spoke with
my mother and tucked his checkbook into
his shirt pocket, Robert approached us.
“Thank you, guys. Dad and I couldn’t have
done this alone.”
Clay shrugged. “It’s what neighbors do,”
he said.
“Not a problem,” I said. “We’re happy to
help.” I wasn’t going to miss waking up for
5am milking.
“We’ll take good care of them,” Robert
said. “Your dad had a good herd.”
“He did,” I said. “He wouldn’t have
wanted anyone else to have them.”
“It’s appreciated,” Robert said. “I’ve been
hoping to grow our operation for a while
now.”
I saw an excitement in his eyes I’d never
felt and was happy for him.
“If there’s anything we can do,” Robert
said, “to help you out. I know it can’t be
easy with your mom being—”
Clay interrupted him — not rudely, but
coolly, in that way Clay had. “She’ll be fine,”
he said. “We all will. Right, Walt?”
I looked at my brother. “Right,” I said.
Several of our mother’s siblings still lived
in Shawano, much closer than either of us
would soon be. Peace of mind. “We will.”
After the funeral, I’d asked my mother if
she wanted me to stay home that fall. She
looked at me as if the sun had risen in the
west that morning and made it very clear
that I wasn’t about to abandon my hopes
or her prayers for me. She said she hadn’t
really thought about what she’d now do, but
that her gardens always needed tending,
that our church would never turn away a

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someone to re-stack the shelves and read
for preschoolers at story time, or that she’d
discover an adventure waiting for her.
Melvin walked to us. Behind him, dark
clouds gathered in the west. “Thank you,”
he said. “Your father would be proud.
You’ve taken good care of the farm, and
we’ll take good care of the animals.” He
shook hands with Clay and me. “Good luck
at school, Walt, and Clay, do us all proud.
Your father will be smiling down.”
“Thanks,” I said.
“I will,” said Clay.
Melvin and Robert walked to their truck.
In their movements, I sensed the same
weariness that had settled in my bones.
Mine surpassed the exhaustion of having
worked since sunrise, though. If the last
three years had beaten me down, the last
month had drained me — but not drained
enough to dismiss the thought that crossed
my mind when walked toward the house
and looked to the side yard, where the fruit
of the cherry trees was just beginning to
streak red. “Hey, Clay,” I said, “hungry for
some chicken?”
“It’s been a while,” he said, “but you
know me.”
“I do,” I said and went up the front stairs
and into the mudroom for our gloves and a
baseball.
Chicken ball was a silly and, to be honest,
dangerous game Clay and I had played since
we were boys. Standing at opposite ends
of the side yard — Clay near the outhouse
that went unused since my parents
installed indoor plumbing and I near the
sprawling lilac bush whose lavender flowers
perfumed the air each May — we lobbed
high, soft tosses to loosen our arms. Once
loose, we each took a step closer. Easy lobs
became faster pegs, and as the distance
decreased, velocity increased. We repeated
the process: another step closer when we
agreed it was right, sometimes with a word,
but more often than not with a gesture or
a nod. Ultimately, we stood no more than
thirty feet apart, throwing the ball as hard
as we could, aiming for a shoulder or shin,
a knee or even a crotch, daring one another
either to trust hair-trigger reflexes or to
flinch and bail — to chicken out.
As we took our places on either end of
the yard, the clouds drew closer. Lightning
briefly flashed, followed several seconds
later by thunder rolling. Clay’s first toss
was high and lazy, and I could easily see
the slow rotation of the red laces as it
dropped from the darkening sky. Though
exhausted from the day’s work, I limbered
up quickly. Muscle memory took over. Clay
and I had played chicken ball more times
than we could count, and for as ludicrous
as the game was, we loved it. Clay and I
were so different in so many ways, but this
— this we shared: a link, however tenuous,
to my kid brother.
As we played, I wondered about my
brother’s reaction to our father’s letters
to us. I wasn’t surprised that we hadn’t
spoken of them; it wasn’t the only subject
floating between us that we couldn’t
bring ourselves to voice, and I wasn’t
going to force the issue. My openness
with Meg and Tom and even my mother
was counterbalanced by the silence
between the men in my family. With each
other, we’d always been detached. When
frustration, desperation, or anger forced a
moment to its crisis, we resorted to shouts,
resentment, and uneasiness writhing like
something electrical.
Another step closer.
Clay couldn’t have felt what I did when
I read my letter. It was impossible. We
may have spoken little, but history told me
that much. He had his own dreams, and I
could only imagine the measure of pride
that filled him when he read our father’s
thoughts about raising us to serve and be
better men than him.
Another step. Higher velocity.
He had to be proud, embracing our
father’s ideals, that he’d become the man
our father envisioned when squinting
through the mists of time for a glimpse of
his sons in the future…

Another. Faster.
… that he — not me — was on the cusp of
fulfilling the dream closest to our father’s
heart, repaying the debt I’d never see as
anything but a liability.
Thirty feet. Terminal velocity.
And all that — was okay. We chose
targets with impunity. More lightning, more
thunder. Clay’s next throw was low and
hard, a beeline for my right ankle. I speared
the ball just above the grass.
I loved Clay. I returned his throw, left
shoulder, snapping my wrist for maximum
backspin. And it wasn’t simply blood. His
throw streaked toward my left knee, my
mitt swallowing it before it struck me.
He was a hell of a ballplayer. Right shin. I
wished the scouts had swayed him. I saw
Clay as misguided, but his beliefs were his;
I wouldn’t change them. The knee again.
Rain began to fall. I was afraid for him.
I knew he’d live through Vietnam, knew
that as a soldier he’d carry his body with
the same preternatural grace he exhibited
on the diamond, treading lightly, gliding
through razor grass, over paddy and trail
without triggering a mine or allowing an
unseen soldier to draw a bead. I threw
sidearm, changing the trajectory of the ball,
making it rise toward his throat. He snared
it with nonchalance. I wasn’t afraid for his
body. I feared for his soul.
The rain fell in sheets, but we didn’t stop.
Our mother called from the porch, but I
couldn’t hear her voice over the thunder.
The knee a third time. I couldn’t remember
my last win in chicken ball. I might have
been nine, maybe ten. A long time ago. I
whipped the ball toward his chest, hoping
in the act of catching it he’d hear. Not a
word now. It’s okay. He’d even won when
one of my throws had skipped just before
reaching him, catching him in the mouth
and snapping a front tooth cleanly in half.
But someday. Angled away from me, I
threw at Clay’s heel. You’ll talk. His left
hand reached downward, snaring the ball
and transferring it to his meat hand as he
pirouetted to return the throw. You’ll need
it. I caught the ball a hair’s breadth above
the bridge of my nose. I’ll listen.
As I gripped the ball, the hair on my
arms stood on end. A concussion sucked
the air from the world for a heartbeat.
The butternut tree whose limbs hung over
the cows’ path to pasture exploded in a
flash of smoke and splinters. A thick limb
groaned and dropped to the ground, pulling
away the bark, exposing a white gash.
Our mother screamed, but her voice came
from somewhere far away, too far away to
reach us. Clay, his smirk situated between
amusement and wonder, crouched as he
would in the field, motioning for my throw.
I did, trusting I’d neither flinch nor bail.

Scott Winkler is currently a high school
English teacher whose unflagging belief
in the power of words and ideas guides
both his pedagogy and his writing.
Scott’s publication background is varied
and diverse. His academic work has
previously appeared in The Journal of
Popular Culture and Aethlon, and his
short fiction has appeared in a variety
of publications. His book The Wide Turn
Toward Home, a collection of seven
short stories and the title novella, was
published by Pocol Press in 2008.

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How amazing to evoke a whole world in
a small space, which ‘Chicken’ does so
masterfully. The dignity and the strong
bond of this grieving family are rendered
with compassion and warmth. It’s also a
quite admirable ‘brother story,’ which I am
always a sucker for, and contains an earned
moment of (actual!) electrical magic.

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They produced only a scraping
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initial ‘C’ for Cullerton. It had been a
gift from Mrs. Cullerton so long ago
that as far as Kevin knew it was the
only belt his dad had ever owned. His
buttoned shirt and tie were gone and
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Kevin was off towards the tiny
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I’ll get it.” He was back in seconds.
“Here, Dad.” He handed it to him and
took a knee again, this time on the
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also to be out of the haze from the
cigarette now dangling from his dad’s
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against the hub.
“I tried pulling it out, but it was too
tight. See?” Kevin held up his hands
to show his father the grease marks
from where he’d grasped the chain.
He wanted his dad to know he’d tried
and not just waited for him to come
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“You can usually pry it out as long
as you’re careful not to bend the
links.” His dad wiggled the blade and
dislodged the stuck chain with a flick
of his wrist. “There we go,” he said as
he handed the screwdriver back to
Kevin. “Well since you already have
your hands oily, why don’t you put the
chain back on while I slacken the back
wheel?”
Again a sense of pride ran up
Kevin’s neck. “OK.” He stood and re-fit
the loosened chain unto the teeth of
the pedal gear. As he did so he noticed
for the first time one of the links
looked strange and different than the
others. “Dad, what’s this? This link
looks wrong.”
His father leaned forward to see
as Kevin held the chain towards him
knowing the gesture would again
show off his oil-stained fingers.
“That’s the master-link,” his dad
said. He coughed twice and crushed
out his cigarette on the lawn.
“Master-link?” Kevin repeated.
“What the heck is that?”
“Here let me show.” His dad slipped
his hand between Kevin’s without
the slightest hesitation about getting
oil on it. His left palm supported the
chain, so the link was facing up and
Kevin could see what he was pointing
at with his little finger. “You see these
two pins? This side has a double
slot. It slides onto the pins and then
the tension holds the link tight. This
small clip then makes sure they don’t
come apart. It’s called a master-link
because you can pop the clip off and
take the link apart and open up the
chain.”
“Why would you ever want to do
that?” Kevin asked.

“Well, if there was a problem with
the chain like you needed to thread
it around or through a tight spot,
or if you ever had to add or take a
link out because it was too small or
large.” He looked up from his hands
to make sure Kevin was following his
explanation.
Kevin found himself eyeball to
eyeball. His dad’s eyes were blue, the
same shade as his own. Surely, he
must have stared into his dad’s eyes
sometime before, back when he was
little and didn’t know it was rude to
stare. But this felt strange, like he was
looking inside his dad and seeing back
to when he was just a kid his own age.
“Dad?” he asked. “Who taught you all
of this stuff?”
Kevin would always remember the
moment. Tiny and quick as it was, it
etched itself deep into him. In later

years, sometimes it would float to the
surface as one of those rare moments
of deep connection between father
and son. At other times it seemed, in
retrospect, a moment of sadness. The
visual memory though, when it drifted
into his mind’s eye, was always the
same. His father’s eyes seemed in
that moment to slide from blue to a
grey drizzly color, washed out like
faded jeans. He’d also remember the
words, even long after the sound of his
father’s voice had faded from memory:
“I guess…” his dad said and slipped
his palm out from beneath the chain
leaving it in Kevin’s hands. “I guess,
unfortunately, I had to learn on my
own.” It would be a long, long time
before Kevin realized what his dad
was telling him; about his own youth,
about his own father, and about the
potential of a master link.

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I love the quiet, simple beauty of
this story. So much is packed into a
small space, with each gesture and
image offering something important
and useful to the fiction. A small,
beautiful gem.

“This ain’t how Grandma told us to
go,” Connor says. Jake ignores him and
trudges along Michigan Street, the waters
of Sturgeon Bay glassy in the distance.
Connor follows because he has no choice.
“You going where I think you’re going?”
Connor demands. “Jake? Are you?”
“Maybe.”
“You said you’d go by yourself.”
“I lied.”
“I don’t want to go there,” Connor says.
“Cemeteries are creepy.”
“Then go back to Grandma’s.”
“No!”
“Then shut up and keep walking.”
They keep walking, making a right turn
onto Bay Shore Drive. As they hike along,
the breeze off Sturgeon Bay feels cool on
their faces.
“Why you like cemeteries so much?”
Connor asks.
“Because I do.”
Jake regrets he ever mentioned
his intentions to Connor. He doesn’t
understand himself why, at thirteen,
he’s developed such a fascination with
cemeteries. There’s just something
interesting about them. Back in
Minneapolis, he sometimes drags Connor
to the Pioneers and Soldiers Cemetery on
East Lake Street, a few blocks from their
house. They wander among tilting old
headstones and newer stones of polished
granite, reading the names, until Connor
begs to go home. Jake has been itching to
walk around in Bay Side Cemetery since
spotting it when the two of them arrived in
Sturgeon Bay three days ago to stay with
Grandpa and Grandma Billings while their
parents toured Europe.
Grandma thinks they’re headed
downtown to get ice cream cones. When
he asked if they could walk downtown, she
reluctantly agreed, giving him ten dollars
and detailed instructions so they wouldn’t
get lost. As if they could get lost in a town
this size after growing up in Minneapolis.
Grandpa and Grandma are nice, Jake
thinks as he and Connor walk along, but
it never feels right. It’s like they are out of
practice in dealing with kids. Two or three
times a year, they drive from Wisconsin to
Minneapolis to spend the weekend. Jake
is glad when they arrive and glad when
they leave. Grandma is an older, fussier
version of his mother. Grandpa is okay but
sometimes he tries too hard. Or not hard
enough. When their parents traveled once
before, Jake and Connor had stayed with
the Vandersteens next door. Despite their
protests, this time they had been dumped
here in Sturgeon Bay.
“We gonna get ice cream or not?” Connor
asks.
“Later, if you’re good.”
“Half of that ten bucks is mine,” Connor
says. “Grandma said.”
“Try an’ collect it, half a brother,” Jake
says. It is a private endearment that Jake
uses lovingly, as much to describe Connor’s
still small stature as to acknowledge that
they have different fathers. Having different
fathers is something Jake is painfully aware
of lately. It barely registers on Connor’s
radar screen — despite the fact that at age
nine, Connor is a clone of Ed Gilbertson
and he, Jake, looks like someone else. When
the three Gilbertson men, as his mother
calls them, stand together, he feels like the
odd man out.

In recent months things haven’t gone
smoothly between Jake and Ed, whom he
calls Dad, even though the step in their
relationship sometimes feels more like a
cliff. For reasons Jake can’t explain, he
challenges Ed Gilbertson’s authority at
every turn. Ed shrugs it off and says it’s
hormones. His mother asks him what’s
wrong, but Jake evades the real issue.
Because she does.
The Bay Side Cemetery grass has
recently been mowed. The smell of the cut
grass is faint in the air. Small American
flags rise above a few gravestones, rippling
in the breeze. For several minutes, they
wander silently among the stones. Jake
suddenly sees a large headstone, reddish in
color. There is a familiar, forbidden name
chiseled in the polished granite: GRANGER.
On each side of the red headstone is a row
of three flat gravestones. On one of them,
Jake sees the name Adam Granger, and
under it the dates February 7, 1974 - April
13, 2004.
Instantly Jake understands that this
is the reason for his fascination with
cemeteries. Without admitting it to anyone,
even himself, he’s been searching for this
particular grave. To make it real. Suddenly
it feels too real and he turns his head so
Connor won’t see him cry.
“What?” Connor asks.
“Nothing.” He makes a show of looking
at other headstones standing guard over
family plots, but he can’t help glancing back
at the red granite stone.
Connor sees through the ruse. “What’s
wrong, Jake?”
Jake hesitates for a moment. If he can’t
share this with his half a brother, then
who is there? He puts a hand on Connor’s
shoulder and walks him back to the red
headstone. “Granger,” he says, “was my last
name before our Mom married your Dad
and they had you.” He points to the smaller
stone. “That’s my dad.”
“Holy smoke!” Connor exclaims. For a
long moment, the only sound is the flutter
of the flags. “Did you know him?”
“No.”
“What happened?”
“He died in a car accident,” Jake answers.
“Before I was born. There’s more to it.” He
knows this not by what he’s been told, but
by what he hasn’t been told.
“Like what?” Connor asks.
“I think it has to do with how the
accident happened.”
“Why don’t you just ask?”
Jake almost smiles. Connor is too young
to understand the gulf between the kid and
the adult worlds. There are some things
you never ask an adult, not if you want an
answer with any truth in it. In the last year,
when he really started asking questions
about his real dad, his mother answered
each question with a minimum of words,
sending the message it was a forbidden
topic. Everything he wants to know
remains locked in the past. By not knowing,
he feels like part of him is somehow lost,
like losing a pair of gloves.
“Come on,” Jake says. “Let’s go get ice
cream.”
Despite being from the big city, they
manage to get lost on the way back to their
grandparents’ house. As they wander
around, a car suddenly swerves over to the
curb.

“Where have you two been?” Grandma
demands.
They climb into the car. Jake shoots
Connor a look that says keep your mouth
shut.
“I’ve been looking all over for you,”
Grandma says. “I knew you’d get lost.”
He could never explain to Grandma that
suddenly he doesn’t feel lost at all. In fact,
he feels like at last he’s found a part of
himself, like one missing glove had turned
up in Lost and Found.
“It’s no big deal,” Jake says. “You found
us.”
The next day is Saturday. Grandpa is
off work. About midmorning, Grandma
decides to bake chocolate chip cookies and
drafts Connor to help.
“Jake,” Grandpa says, “What say we take
a walk? Stretch our legs.” By the tone of
Grandpa’s voice, Jake knows there’s no
escape.
Grandpa follows a route through town
that brings them to Bay Shore Drive. He
turns north and suddenly Jake knows
where they’re headed.
Grandpa cuts through the cemetery lots
like he knows exactly where he’s going.
When they reach the GRANGER headstone,
Grandpa stops. Jake waits.
Grandpa’s hands slide into his pockets.
“So I understand you’ve been asking some
questions around home, giving your folks a
hard time. Your mother asked me what to
do, and I said you’re old enough to know.
She agreed.”
Now Jake understands why he and
Connor are staying here instead of with the
Vandersteens. It makes him angry.
“If she wants me to know something,
then why don’t she tell me?”
“It’s not something she likes to talk
about,” Grandpa says. “So she asked me if
I’d talk to you. What do you want to know?”
Grandpa’s question bears the directness
Jake has craved, but suddenly finds a little
terrifying.
“She told me he died in a car accident.”
“That’s right.”
“Is there more to it?”
“There is.” Grandpa jingles the change in
his pockets and looks toward the bay.
“Your Grandma and I weren’t very happy
when your mother married Adam Granger,”
he says. “We knew the family. Let’s just
say they were kinda rough and Adam was
a wild one.” Grandpa shakes his head. “To
make a long story short, around the time
your mother married Adam, he got into
drugs. It was hard on your mother. He used
them more and more, and after a couple
years, he started manufacturing them. He
set up a factory out in the country where
he made a drug called methamphetamine.
The sheriff’s department arrested a bunch
of drug users. They said they bought their
drugs from Adam. The sheriff put Adam
under surveillance and found his factory.
They went out there one night to arrest
him.”
Grandpa taps the July date on Adam
Granger’s gravestone with his toe. “That’s
the date they went out. Adam found out
the sheriff’s posse was coming. Somebody
tipped him off, though the sheriff never
determined who called. Officially. Adam
made a run for it in his car just as they
arrived. During the chase, he crashed his
car. That was it.”

Grandpa falls silent. Jake thinks his way
through what Grandpa has said and not
said, decoding his meaning.
“Was she the one who called him?”
Grandpa hesitates and then nods. “It was
real hard on your mother. She didn’t know
where Adam was when she called him.
She told him the sheriff had been to the
house looking for him. She begged him to
turn himself in. The sheriff determined she
wasn’t involved in any of what Adam was
doing and left her out of his report. But she
blamed herself for Adam’s death.”
Jake studies the gravestone. It is
overwhelming, hearing it all laid out so
matter-of-fact. This is a different side of
Grandpa, one that Jake wishes he had
known before.
“Right after Adam died, she found out
she was carrying you,” Grandpa says.
“You’re the one good thing that came out of
a pretty awful time for her. She needed to
get away from here, start over. That’s why
she moved to Minneapolis. Eventually, she
met your step-dad. You know the rest.”
It is Jake’s turn to nod. Everyone
knows the story of how his mother met Ed
Gilbertson in the business ethics class they
were taking in night school, Jake thinks.
God knows he’s heard it enough times, as
if her life began on that day and everything
Grandpa just told him never happened. He
thinks of Ed Gilbertson and Connor, two
thirds of the Gilbertson men. A question
nags at him.
“Do I look like him?”
“Yes,” Grandpa says. “Adam was tall and
rangy — like you.”
That answers that question, Jake thinks,
but generates another, scarier one.
“You need to understand,” Grandpa says,
as though reading Jake’s mind. “A man’s
made up of more than flesh and bone. He’s
also the sum of the choices he makes. Your
father made a lot of bad choices.”
Grandpa rests his hands on Jake’s
shoulders. “There’s years of choices ahead
of you, Jake. They’re yours to make, not
your father’s. Ed Gilbertson is a good man.
He can be the father Adam Granger never
could be — if you choose to let him.”
Grandpa claps him on the shoulders.
“Let’s head back. I’ll bet those cookies are
done.”
They make their way between the
gravestones. Jake looks back at the red
headstone a final time. He senses that
Grandpa’s account is an abbreviated
version of what happened, sanitized to
protect everyone involved — his dead
father, his mother. Grandpa and Grandma.
Maybe even himself. Connor, too. It is, he is
coming to understand, what adults do.
They leave the cemetery. Grandpa’s step
has a lightness that wasn’t there when they
first set out. So, Jake thinks, the rest of the
story, the other glove, is laying out there
somewhere, waiting to be found. He’ll keep
looking. Someday. For today, one glove
found is enough.

Roger Barr’s collection of short stories
Getting Ready for Christmas & Other
Stories was published in 2011. He’s also
the author of a novel, seven nonfiction
books and the award-winning play
Decoration Day. In 2013 he won The Loft
writing contest, a juried competition. He
lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.

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A fine coming-of-age story about the ways
that our wisest elders often seem to know
the moment when we are ready to know the
next thing. I want to follow this young man
and find how this truth will shape his world.

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James Johnson’s eyes were on
me. Not hard, not cold, not angry.
Expressionless. I stopped knocking
the dust and grit off me and realized
I had a decision to make. His eyes
waited.
“Mr. Johnson, I’m sorry about your
arbor here. I’d like to make it right.”
“Do you know how to use a
hammer?”
“Yessir.”
“And I suppose you have used a
shovel before.”
“Yessir.”
He gestured me around the side
of his garage into a small building.
I suppose you could call it a shed,
except that it was so – pristine. White,
freshly painted. Window boxes with
geraniums. I stood at the door. He
handed me a shovel and placed a
hammer, level, and several small tools
into a wooden tote. “Pull the lattice
off the pole. Pole’s in two feet, so
you’ll need to dig it up and re-set it.
Level and plumb line,” he gestured
to the tool tote. “Save as many of the
marigolds as you can. Don’t go near
the roses.” His eyes waited for my
nod. He turned and went in his back
door.
I had ridden the alley between Pine
and Maple on the way home from my
paper route, as always. This time,
though, James Johnson, Jr. – Three-J
to his buddies – had backed out of
that garage in an old Ford F-150. He
cut it too sharp and caught the edge of
his Dad’s arbor, damn near running
me over to boot. Knocked me off my
bicycle. Yee-hawed loud and shot off in
a spray of gravel and blue oil smoke.
He was a block and a half away by the
time James, Sr. came to see what had
happened.
I pulled the lattice gently off
the tilted pole with the claw of
the hammer. I spread a few of the
newspapers from the tote next to
the pole and shoveled up marigolds,
putting them aside. I set to digging.
It’s hard to tell if it was the heat
of an Indiana summer that had me
flushed and sweaty, or the humiliation
of what’d just happened. I comforted
myself by admiring the Johnson’s tiny
back yard. I’d never seen it before,
hidden by their garage and arbor.
This neighborhood was The
Heights. Most of the folks who lived
here worked at the foundry. The
houses are snugged tight against one
another, only a thin sidewalk between
each. Postage-stamp-sized front
yards, cinderblock front porches.
Some had screens. Otherwise the
house number was all that told the
difference. But this back yard was
lush, manicured – made me think of
the Garden of Eden. It had a patch of
brilliant grass, tomatoes growing in
neat cages, marigolds and flowers I
couldn’t name, all precisely arranged
and closely tended. I could see I had a
tough standard to meet.
I was about halfway through
digging up the pole when Three-J and
a couple of buddies buzzed down the
alley to see what there was to see. He
fishtailed some gravel my way and
roared off laughing.
James, Sr. was seated inside the
house with his back to me. He had
a guitar. He leaned forward and put
the needle down on a record. “…
shot a man in Reno, just to watch
him die. When I hear that whistle
blowin,’ I hang my head and cry…”
he played along with the guitar solo.
Poorly. Then he lifted the needle and
repeated. Then again. I lost count at
about eighteen, when the heat and

humidity dissolved it in a cloud of
sweat.
It’s odd how your mind drifts
to other places when there’s only
drudge and discomfort in front of
you. I remembered my math teacher,
Mr. Walker. He’d nudged me on the
shoulder just before summer vacation,
smiling. “Next fall. Calculus.”
“Calculus?”
“You bet. You’re good with math.
You can handle it.”
“Okay – but what is calculus
about?” Even in the swelter of the
alley between Pine and Maple, I
chuckled to remember how he’d lit
into an animated description of the
wonders of calculus, and the dizzying
problems it could work out.
Okay, I thought. So a rocket
takes off and is creating thrust at a
fixed rate. Every instant its speed
increases; but its weight decreases,
because it’s burned that much fuel.
That means that it accelerates that
much more, even though the thrust
remains constant, but in the next
instant it’s faster, but lighter. There’s
really a way to work out where it’s
going to land, even though everything
is changing all at once?
By the time I’d gotten the pole
squared up and plumb, Mr. Johnson
had played the whole guitar solo
passably. He went through it a few
more times as I shoveled back the dirt
and re-positioned the marigolds. He
was playing it confidently.
If you press the point of those
small finish nails with the side of the
hammer head, you can back them
almost-out of the lattice without
dropping them into the dirt. Steering
clear of the rose thorns and moving
them as gently as I could, I pulled the
lattice back into place on the pole.
Even as sweaty and gritty as I was,
I got a lot of satisfaction seeing that
the finish nails lined up exactly with
the holes they’d come out of. I tapped
them back into place. I had the arbor
back as it had been. I shook the last
of the dirt off the newspaper onto the
marigolds and straightened up the
work site.
I stood up from brushing the last
of the dirt off the driveway. I heard
a few steps. James Johnson’s eyes
were back on me. Still expressionless,
except that he surveyed the work I’d
done with a faint nod. “Sir, I believe
I’m done.”
He nodded toward the tool building.
“You see where the tools came from?
“Yessir.”
“Put ‘em up. Then you’re done.”
I hung the hammer and level on the
pegboard, put the shovel in its stand
in the corner, and the small tools in
the half-open drawer. By the time I’d
shut the drawer and the building’s
door, James, Sr. had gone back into
the house. Instead, Mrs. Johnson
was standing there, with a glass of
lemonade in her hand. “Here,” she
said. Her voice was almost too quiet.
“I thought you might need this.”
I had seen Mrs. Johnson before. She
was always the one at the door when
I came by on Thursday evenings to
collect the 40 cents for the newspaper.
Always a faint smile, always has the
quarter, dime and nickel in a saucer
on the front-hall table. I’d thank her,
hand her the tab from the collection
book, another faint smile. I’d never
heard her speak before. No surprise:
different churches, and in this town
that’s everything. I imagined she was
Baptist. Most of The Heights is. They
have no truck with Presbyterians.
“Thank you.” The lemonade was
delicious. You can tell when it’s

come from a can, and this had been
squeezed, strained, sweetened and
iced. “It’s just the right thing.”
Unlike her husband, her eyes were
searching me intensely. “May I ask
you something?”
“Yes’m.”
“What you did – I was watching.
James, Jr. knocked that arbor over
with his truck. Why did you take the
blame for that?”
I was trying to form an answer, but
her eyes searched me until she said,
“Wasn’t that a lie? Why would you lie
to my husband?”
I sipped her wonderful lemonade.
“It wasn’t a lie. Not exactly. I said I
was sorry the arbor was damaged,
and I was. I said I wanted to make it
right, and I did. Both were true.”
“But why did you do that? Be
straight with me.” Her eyes had
shifted to a mother’s critical stillness.
The lemonade was half gone. “I
thought that only Three – uh, James,
Jr. – and I were the only ones who saw
that happen. When Mr. Johnson was
right there, I decided that saying what
I saw might amount to squealing on
someone who’s bigger and stronger
than me. It could get to ‘no, I didn’t’
and who’s-callin’-who-a-liar, and
friends and cousins start gettin’
involved. Everything changes all at
once. You can’t tell how it will end. Or
when. It was quicker and easier to tell
what I felt, rather than what I saw.”
I thought of Mr. Walker, and had to
choke back a smile. “Sometimes the
shortest distance between two points
is not a straight line.”
Her eyes searched me busily again.
I was already several hours late,
and needed to get home for supper.
“Mrs. Johnson, this truly is the best
lemonade I’ve ever tasted. This makes
the whole effort worthwhile. Thank
you.” Again, the truth. She smiled her
small smile, and took the glass from
me.
Mom chewed on me a little for
coming home late, and dirty. I
let her go on imagining I’d gotten
caught up in a good baseball game. It
wasn’t till the beginning of school in
September that I began to see how my
calculation had worked out. Several
of the Johnsons’ neighbor girls talked
to me in the hallway. Nothing great,
but a hi-how-ya-doin’ can make your
morning. Three-J’s brother Jared said
his Dad told Three-J he couldn’t even
work as hard as a skinny Presbyterian
schoolboy. But come December
21 – well, that Thursday evening,
at Johnson’s, my 40-cent weekly
newspaper collection came with a
Christmas card. Had a dollar bill in
it. Also an excellent chocolate-chip
cookie.
Best I ever tasted.

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Indiana factory town, which
provides plenty of material for his
writing projects. He’s published a
few short stories and quite a few
poems.

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universal struggle to choose the right
path and, as is often the case, how to
even know what that is. How rare it
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I’m washing my brother’s dishes.
Actually, I’m boiling his flatware
before I can begin the washing. It’s
all that dirty: the knives and spoons
coated with something filmy, the fork
tines clogged with what might be old
eggs. Other than the jarring sounds of
pans sliding against pans as I search
cupboards or move dishes from
counter to sink, the cabin is utterly
quiet, the heavy air undisturbed.
My brother Steven — bearded, thin,
and haggard enough to appear Christlike — says he might have barfed in the
sink, but he’s not sure. He mentions
this from the one comfortable chair
in his cabin, where he sits naked from
the waist down, cigarettes and vodka
within easy reach, his long hands
flat on the black leather armrests,
his body motionless as he stares out
the glass sliding doors to the woods
beyond his deck. Steven’s golden
retriever, her fur dull and matted, lies
on the rug next to his chair. The dog
doesn’t bark, or move her tail, but
tracks my movements with her eyes.
The nakedness is fair. Steven’s
stomach is so distended from his
failing liver that his pants are
probably useless. Besides, he didn’t
expect my visit. I’ve arrived without
invitation, after driving on winter
roads for several hundred miles, to
see if he’s still alive.
In our last telephone conversation,
Steven ’s voice was low and full of
pauses. He described shooting pains
in his chest, how little he ate, how
much he slept. While driving, I prayed
he hadn’t answered his phone for the
last several days because it wasn’t
charged or because he was sleeping
a lot, lost in the wild colored dreams
he’d been telling me about.
Both assumptions were correct.
I discover this when I walk into his
cabin, as casual as some neighbor
with a coffee cake, although it’s

chicken and rice I’ve brought to cook
for him. When I call his name he
doesn’t move from the chair, greet
me, or rush to cover himself. He just
says, “I’m not going to some damn
hospital.”
Shutting the door behind me, I
childishly reply, “No one asked you
to.”
I’ve messed up before, arguing or
trying to reason; or worst of all, using
my social worker skills — something
he always detected and mocked me
for — to get him to stop drinking, to
change who he’d become. Even now,
way into my forties, I’m only the
younger sister, and anything I suggest
is unlikely to happen. So I’ll boil the
flatware and wash all the dishes
instead, because nothing is clean
and I want to make him a meal. It’s
unlikely the dishes will get dirty again
once I leave, not with how used-up
Steven looks, not after his admission
that nothing stays down anymore
except for vodka.
This is what I’m here for. With my
grandmother and mother dead, it’s
become my job to make a last attempt
to save, or at least feed, my brother.
I remember us eating meals together,
the pancakes our grandmother made:
the smell of bacon, the eggs fried in
butter in a cast iron skillet. Our own
mother always at the stove, making
meat and potatoes and a vegetable
each night. After supper the two
of us would do the dishes together.
Steven washing and me up on a stool
drying each plate and putting it away
in the cupboard where it belonged.
I want to give this to him one more
time, to change the air in the horrible
cabin, cover the cigarette smoke, the
unbathed body and dirty dog smell,
change it to something like home —
like our grandmother’s home. Like the
people we were.
Steven knows this, I’m sure of it.
There’s the way he mentions the

sound of the chicken frying, and the
way he sniffs the air as I turn the
meat over in the skillet. I serve him
such a small portion, resisting the
urge to cut the meat for him. He eats
everything on the plate, being precise
about each bite, looking almost happy
by the time he finishes. He tells me
how good it tastes, but soon after he
pushes heavily on the arms of his
recliner to stand and make his way to
the bathroom. I doubt he’ll reheat the
leftovers I’ve wrapped and put in the
refrigerator.
Steven returns out of breath and
with a towel wrapped around himself
and tells me, “Don’t go in there.” I
pull up a hard kitchen chair and sit
next to the table piled with weeks of
mail. I’d much rather scrub at spots
on the counter, or vacuum around the
dog, but I’m remembering that Bible
story, the one about Martha and Mary
hanging out with Jesus, how Martha
cleans while Mary listens. I realize I’m
imitating the wrong sister, so I stop
and sit down. It’s clear to me I won’t
visit Steven here again. Not with
how large his belly has become on
his emaciated body or with the way
he’s missing his ankles, his lower legs
just swollen, jaundiced blobs ending
in feet. One foot, I notice, has dried
poop stuck to it. I point this out and
he expresses minimal interest, just
moves his head unhurriedly to look,
and says he doesn’t know if it’s his
or the dog’s. He does not attempt to
clean himself. Still, I press where his
ankle should be, and comment on how
long the skin takes to bounce back.
There are lines on both legs, streaks of
ochre against his skin’s oddly yellowtan color, like the straight roads on
a map. They represent past bouts of
diarrhea, I realize, but this time I stay
quiet.
Despite the gravity, the finality of
this visit, my heart isn’t pounding
and my thoughts aren’t all jumbled

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and rubbery as often happens to
me in a crisis. It’s more like the
lingering cigarette smoke is a fog I
wade through to face Steven. I fight
the desire to pull back, to dissociate
and watch the events play out from
the ceiling somewhere or out in the
woods — the woods my brother loved.
I’m surprised by the memory of a
phone call from months, maybe even a
year, ago. He was sitting on his deck,
tossing a ball to the dog he said — and
drinking, from the sound of his voice.
I was busy running errands and told
him so. He mocked me and called
me foolish for living my suburban
life driving my van, doing everything
from a list, and eating eggs only at
breakfast.
“That’s what you’re doing. I know
that’s what you’re doing,” he accused
from his sunny patio. My stunned
silence as I drove the curved roads
of my neighborhood encouraged him
to ramble on. He said I could eat
anything, anytime — there were no
rules. His words were sarcastic, his
laughter cruel.

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If I keep working, if I vacuum, as
my mother surely would, perhaps I’ll
make up for the chicken, do something
right. There is a risk to just sitting
with each other, not even a sink of
dirty dishes between us. What if I
say something wrong, open some old
wound between us, and there is never
another time to fix it?
I talk about my kids, ask questions
about his dog, the best things he’s
ever done, and about his worst
memory ever. Without a pause, he
tells about when he was a kid, maybe
seven, and I was a baby. He was in
the garage with our dad and Todd
Markowski from down the block, who
smoked smelly cigars. Steven sat in
the driver’s seat of one of the old cars
Dad loved to restore. I imagine the
way his brown hair stood up in the
back, his freckled face with its slanted
smile. As Steven talks he looks out the
screen window, at the spot between
the pines where the deer come in the
early evening. Steven was supposed
to press the brake pedal so Dad could
show Mr. Markowski something. He
messed up — what little boy wouldn’t
— pushed the gas pedal instead and
caused some problem. Maybe the men
jumped back, startled at the sound
of the motor racing, or maybe the
car lurched forward, Steven doesn’t
say. But he tells about the swearing
and name calling that came next, all
in front of Mr. Markowski who kept
smoking his cigar. Steven refused to
go into the garage after that.
In my mind, as Steven talks, I add
bottles of Pabst to the workbench
underneath the windows facing the
backyard, and a smack as he’s hauled
out by his elbow, the harsh words
ringing from him, as he runs to his

room and slams his door. Or, it’s
possible he sat frozen in the lousy
cab of the broken car intent, despite
the shouting, on the view of crab
apple trees, wash lines, and our redshuttered house outside the double
glass of windshield and windows.
Maybe our mother’s shadow moved
past a window, carrying the new
sister he wasn’t allowed to touch
without cleaning up first.
Steven finishes his story and turns
to me, “What you gonna do, write
about it?” I remain silent, make no
promises, already wondering how
to memorize each portion of this
day, how it might look on the page. I
fear I’ll forget his sunken cheeks and
ragged beard, or the way he lifts his
unlit cigarette to his mouth inhaling
and exhaling nothing. The drawn-out
pace of his words, the raspy sound of
his laugh, his light touch on my arm,
and even the long imprint of my finger
on his ankle make me wish for paper,
some way to get it all outside myself.
His dog cries at the door and I
take her outside. Tail wagging, she
checks the air and tests the length of
her leash while I pour corn for the
deer from a bucket in the shed. I’m
on Steven’s property, his land ends
where the Chequamegon-Nicolet
National Forest begins, but it’s the
crab apple trees in the backyard of
our parents’ home I’m picturing.
Steven could lean against a rake,
motionless for long stretches of time.
Mom and I would watch him from the
kitchen window, her hand holding
back the ruffled curtain so we could
both see. I remember her exasperation
at his lack of progress. How she’d say,
“That kid … What’ll become of that
kid?” I knew I could rake better, get
rid of all the crab apples and make her
happy if only I were big enough.
Later, as I drive away from his
cabin, another memory returns. I’m
still little, and Steven wants me to
toss a football with him. Crab apples
and yellow leaves litter the autumn
ground. Our laundry line posts denote
end zones. There are the rich sounds
of crackling leaves and pigskin hitting
palms as he teaches me to catch and
pass. He plays defense and I make my
slow way towards those laundry pole
goal posts. Success is in the air, as he
allows me to get close, oh so close, to
a touchdown. And then he uses all his
power to push me back to the fiftyyard line and tackle me until time is
finally called and the game is over.
Driving south towards home I
suppose Steven is in his chair, the dog
stretched out beside him. They’ll both
watch for deer that make their way
out of the woods at dusk looking for
corn. Later Steven will rouse himself
enough to pour another drink or light
a cigarette. I’ll futz with the car’s
radio or talk on my cell phone. Both of
us are moving on.

Joanne Nelson’s writing appears in
literary journals such as Midwestern
Gothic, Brevity, Consequence, and
Redivider. In addition, she presents
on topics related to mindfulness
and writing, creativity, and the
personal essay. Nelson lives in
Hartland, Wisconsin where she
leads community programs,
maintains a psychotherapy
practice, and adjuncts. More
information is available at
wakeupthewriterwithin.com.

“

This is a gut punch of a story filled
with indelible images – the clogged
fork tines, the ‘jaundiced blobs ending
in feet,’ the imprint of a finger on an
ankle. I can picture it all even as I
don’t want to, and haven’t been able
to stop thinking about it since my first
reading. The starkness of the now
is beautifully mixed with the past
and what is, unfortunately, likely to
happen next.

Nonfiction Judge
Erika Janik

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tortoise. Fortunately they are slow moving, which gave me time for this ‘portrait.’

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My parents would always have Paris.
They met on Sunday, April 18, 1937, my
father’s birthday, on a blind date on the
western edge of the city. It was cloudy, and
my mother wasn’t keen about the meeting,
dragging her feet. She usually spent
Sundays in the suburbs having lunch with
colleagues and changed buses at the Porte
de Saint-Cloud. To please a best friend, she
was squeezing him in.
She was 26, single, independent,
cosmopolitan, working in the Paris office of
my grandfather’s import-export business,
a moderately successful pharmaceutical
firm. Her flair for languages was an asset,
coming in handy as she took dictation
in her own multilingual brand of Pitman
shorthand, handled correspondence and
answered the phone. She tweezed her
eyebrows, smoked, and had dared to pose
nude for art students in a life drawing
class. If she was handsome -- some would
say even beautiful from the photographs
-- she could never acknowledge it, being
instead utterly convinced that she was ugly
or at best plain, while her younger sister,
with blonde curls and blue eyes, was the
conventionally pretty one. She was smart
and bookish; played the piano; and was not
easily won or impressed.
My father was a sound- and cameraman
who had started out as a sales
representative at Fox Movietone. Starryeyed about America, its cultural icons
like Shirley Temple and Tom Mix, he was
lured by drama and thrills, of travel across
Europe and journalistic scoops. In Berlin,
he photographed Hitler when he rose to
Chancellor in January 1933, standing in
the Reich Chancellery just a few feet away
from him, and Mussolini’s family when my
father, no longer able to work in Germany,
was moved by Fox to Rome. During all
this time, he didn’t seem to make the
connection that as a Jew getting so close
might put him in harm’s way. Perhaps it
didn’t matter, because he was committed
to covering the news. Or perhaps he was
hoping this proximity might eventually pay
off. It was something that, like so much
else, I never thought to ask.
Indeed, it was my father’s connection
to Spain’s Generalissimo Franco that
probably saved his life. My father had
been sent to Spain in 1934 where, as a
soundman, he had recorded bullfights,
flamenco dancers and Seville’s Holy Week.
In 1936, he had been assigned to cover
the Spanish Civil War from Franco’s
side, coming under fire near Málaga from

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by Ronnie Hess

Loyalist troops as his team took their
first combat pictures. One day in May
1937, scarcely a month after meeting my
mother, he was stopped at Irún along the
French-Spanish border and interrogated
by a Gestapo officer in charge of German
nationals in Spain.
“Mensch, Sie sind doch Jude,” the
German officer hissed at my father. “So,
you’re a Jew.” My father was detained
and sent to an internment camp in
Fuenterrabía. As he was filling out papers
there, he listed Franco as a reference,
having interviewed him two days before in
Burgos, then demanded to speak by phone
to his press headquarters in Salamanca. He
got through to a press officer who phoned
the military commander in Irún who had
him released. A slightly more dramatic
version that I recall hearing from my father
as a child had him behind bars yelling in
Spanish, “I want to speak to Generalissimo
Franco,” until a Spanish guard opened the
jail door and told my father to get going,
saying he’d look the other way. My sister
always believed that was the better part of
the truth.
As a youth, my father had been raised in
a close-knit, middle class, not particularly
religious Jewish family that could trace its
ancestors back to the early 18th century
in southeastern Germany. Relatives had
established themselves in and around
Bavaria as innkeepers and optometrists,
solid citizens respected by members of both
Jewish and Gentile communities, according
to an account my grandfather had written
about his relatives. The Urkunde, the
official document that had conferred
German citizenship on one of my ancestors
in the 19th century, was a treasured family
heirloom, handed down along with the
embroidered sheets and tablecloths that
were either spirited out of Germany just
before World War II by my aunt or put away
for safekeeping by friends until family
could reclaim the possessions after the war.
I never found out which.
After Hitler’s rise to power in 1933, after
my father left home not to return again,
he threw himself into gallivanting across
Europe, fancying himself not a refugee but
a foreign correspondent and ladies’ man,
especially since he was on the rebound,
not yet divorced but putting behind him
a failed marriage to a woman he had wed
years before in an extravagant, formal
ceremony in a Kraków synagogue. That he
was dapper was without question, a man
who dressed impeccably in tailored suits

and hand-made, monogrammed shirts. He
was over six feet tall, energetic, athletic,
an ex-amateur boxer with a broken nose,
a man who liked to pose, even mug, for
the camera, a man without hesitation or
reserve.
He had been sent to good schools, like
my mother, and was pleased he could
still recite the opening sentences of The
Odyssey in Greek, which he had learned
along with Latin at the gymnasium, or high
school. But when he and my mother met,
he spoke in a peppery “Broadway English,”
a patois of swear words, bloody this and
bloody that, and street talk learned from an
Italian cameraman. It never occurred to my
father that no self-respecting Englishman
would ever utter these kinds of phrases
in polite company and it probably never
crossed his mind that his brazenness and
showy self-confidence might be off-putting
to a well-brought up, reserved English
woman. Or, did he just know his own
charm? He was bent on seizing the moment,
a man who didn’t so much embrace life as
powerfully tackle it. For her, he must have
been the brass section of an orchestra, a
one-man band, a blaring, unapologetic,
one-of-a-kind composition, pulsing his beats
straight to the heart.
When he first saw her – was she walking
toward him, did he fix his gaze upon her,
eye her up and down, or was she the one
sitting down as he approached, did she
extend a gloved hand, did he kiss it? – he
knew he was not indifferent. A coup de
foudre. A lightning bolt. Love at first sight.
My father pressed my mother to meet
him again that evening and she agreed.
They ordered lobster -- because it was
his birthday -- in a restaurant around the
corner from the Gare Saint-Lazare. He
walked her back to her hotel behind the
Place de la Madeleine. The next day they
lunched near the Rue Des Poules, and then,
in the evening, without remembering being
asked and without reconsidering, she went
to his hotel, asked the night clerk for his
room number, climbed the stairs, knocked
on the door and walked in.
During the next two years, from 1937
to 1939, my father’s situation became
increasingly precarious. Since Germany’s
racial laws had cost him his job in
Germany, Fox shifted him to Spain; but
the Nazis also made it impossible for
him to continue working there and Fox
transferred him to Italy. There were rushed
introductions to family – my mother to my
father’s mother and brother during a visit

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to Rome; my father to my mother’s family
in England on a 24-hour pass. Just before
war broke out, my mother agreed to follow
my father to Spain, ironically the only
country now that would issue him a work
permit. The border agents told her she was
abandoning Britain in its hour of need. She
swore she said, “I’m going to be with the
man I love.”
In Madrid, my father worked for Fox
until the Spanish government acceded to
Germany’s demand to bar German Jews
from Spanish or German companies. My
father resorted to making a living as a
freelance photographer, his Jewish identity
known only to close friends, while my
mother taught English to the daughter of a
Spanish duchess. In December 1940, visas
finally in hand, my parents set sail on the
Magallanes, a Spanish steamer bound first
for Cuba and then New York City. They
were leaving loved ones they would never
see again – my father’s parents, who later
would be deported to Theresienstadt,
then executed in Treblinka, along with
my father’s aunts; my mother’s beloved
brother, a violinist turned artillery man in
the British army who would be killed in
1942 in Crete, his body never recovered;
and my mother’s father, who would die of
heart failure in 1950.
But in the early months of 1942, recently
married and expecting the birth of my
sister, my parents tried to be hopeful. Bad
news would come later, shadows of the
heart, phantoms of loss. Yes, they were
alone in America, but full of New World
optimism. They had their life together,
beacons of light shone for them. In an early
snapshot of them together, on an outing to
Washington Square, they looked confident,
their heads held high, my mother’s belly
full with my sister, rounding the outlines of
her cloth coat.
As my parents made their way in
America, putting down roots, the French
private school they sent me to came to
represent neutral ground in their own
culture wars. As a small child going to
school during the Great War, my mother
had knitted bandages for wounded British
soldiers and surely had been exposed to
large doses of British propaganda against
the Boches, the German enemy, although
she never used that word. She never shared
my father’s affection for German food and
popular music, and their conflicting tastes
sometimes would trigger an explosive
exchange. He would go on the defensive
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NOTABLE
“Hammock Joy”
by Shannon
Thielman
I live in rural Marathon County with my
six-year-old son, where we raise chickens.
We travel to Panama every other year
because after having served in the Peace
Corps there from 2002-2003, people in
these villages seem like family. These
children (three Panamanian and one, my
son, American) were enjoying popsicles
together after a long afternoon playing.
Their joy is nearly constant, and is in
stark contrast to the economic poverty
their families face.

things by saying he wasn’t really German,
or “Jews go one above every race.” At those
moments he would cry out in exasperation
and disgust, bang his fist on the table, and
storm out of the house. The tension, as I
now see it in broader terms, was between
decades of attempted Jewish integration
into the larger German society by my
father’s family, and my mother’s ideas
about Jewish exceptionalism. My sister and
I were witnesses, hostages.
My mother never considered that I would
have any difficulty thrust into an utterly
foreign linguistic environment where, at
first, I couldn’t communicate. She assumed
that I would simply catch on, much as
she thought she had as a child when her
father decided that at the dinner table his
family would speak French. My mother had
become a convert of this over-zealousness.
When my grandfather sent her to work in
his Paris office he may not have seen the
posting as a reward for her follow-through
or belief in him, but for her it was all that,
and an idealized, almost innate faith in
France.

And there was no escaping my mother’s
preposterous name. My grandmother, in
what must have been a romantic haze
as she expected her first born, invested
in my mother much of her own youthful
imagination and yearning for French
ground and culture, for the people she had
come across in life and in books. Like so
many Europeans of her generation, she
had been won over by France’s idealized
“civilizing mission,” its centuries of
international influence. When my mother
was born, just a few, short months after
my grandparents had married, my
grandmother named her child Clementine
Marie-Antoinette Martine.
Through her school years, my mother
insisted it took teachers an eternity to
read her name out, that she could walk to
the front of the classroom to pick up an
exam paper before they had even finished
calling on her. When my parents married,
she didn’t object when my father insisted
she become simply Tina. It was the only
time she let anyone kill her connection to
France.

Ronnie Hess is a writer and poet, the
author of three poetry chapbooks –
Whole Cloth, Ribbon of Sand, and A
Woman in Vegetable; as well as two
culinary travel guides, Eat Smart in
France and Eat Smart in Portugal. She
lives in Madison, Wisconsin.

“

This story is cinematic in scope filled with
vivid descriptions as the author tries to
make sense of her own life in the story of
her parents’ early life and courtship. The
opening makes you think you’ve read this
story before – they’d always have Paris
– but it quickly charts a different course.
The details of their lives and characters
are exact and yet spare, painting a rich
portrait of two very different people
coming together in just a few pages.

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It was late of April and the sea ice had
all but disappeared from the edges of the
channels and bays. The sun felt warm on
our backs. Though it yet harbored some
coolness, the air was warming, and had a
heady aroma that smelled at the same time
of fresh linen and earth. The doldrums
of winter were reliably over, and we were
ready for another season of adventure in
the limitless possibilities of our world.
My crew and I strode through the
ripening field of grasses and wildflowers,
and when atop the last hillock before
the harbor, we saw her there below our
feet, riding high at tie-up. Her bare yards
beckoned us as if with welcoming arms.
With one mind, we all stood there agape,
taking in the sights, sounds, smells, and
potential of the day that welled inside
our breasts. The march down the hill and
conversation with crewmates escaped my
remembrance as I suddenly found myself
dockside, ready to board. Now close to her,
we stood transfixed for the second time,
drinking in the width, breadth, and awe
of the vessel that would bear us up on her
planks to destinations only imagined.
We had not noticed her for what she was
before. It was just a tree that had fallen in
a gale some years before, left to succumb to
the ways of nature. The bark was gone, and
certainly no leaves. But, to me, my sister,
Kathy, and our neighbors, John and his
brother, Joel, it became that day a schooner
set in the sea of warming prairie, floated by
our spirits, and propelled by our youthful
imagination.
One by one, we clambered aboard. It
was a very large tree, with the trunk held
high up off the ground by its branches. Our
efforts of throwing a leg over the trunk
and hauling ourselves up hand over hand
by pulling on still supple branches added
to our image of manning a real ship of the
line that was not made for human comfort,
but for speed and transport over the brine.
Once standing on the deck and viewing our
surroundings from a higher perspective,
everything looked different, making it
easy to ascribe new characteristics to our
neighborhood, as we imagined the grassy
yards a blue ocean, the homes distant
islands far offshore. Gazing upwards
into the branches reaching skyward over
our heads, the masts and yardarms that
had been purposefully set for us in the
firmament by the very wind itself, were
poised to capture the force of that ether
as it blew across us, toward wherever we
willed it to.
Our preparations for voyage continued,
as we disembarked momentarily to fetch
household items necessary to complete
fitment. Lengths of rope and an old
bedsheet were commandeered for rigging,
and piping from an old plumbing project
for cannon. We finished the fitting out
with, what was standard childhood
equipment in our youth, our ever-present
cap pistols and rifles to handle any adverse
consequence of unfortunate encounter.
After tying the sail to the upper branches
and stringing the ropes from yardarm to
yardarm, we were by all accounts ready to
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happiest walking the deck from fore to
their end, and not muscle, bone, or flesh.
aft and back again, checking on all the
The advantage was now with us, as their
many facets of marine engineering that a
store of arrows was half depleted and we
good master ought to keep stock of. Kathy
had not yet begun to fire at what now had
was at the helm, finding a pliable branch
become even closer range. Kathy yelled
with which to swing the rudder port or
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starboard, depending on contrary wind
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As most spring weather goes, it was a
in the narrow strips of paper ammunition
usual blustery day, and provided us with
with which they were loaded. The heathens
excitement as the deck rocked beneath
were terrified at the sound. They had
our feet from it, making footing precarious
neither seen such a sight as our courage,
for the sailor of little or no experience in
nor the superiority of our weapons and
the ways of the wind upon the water. Our
resolve. Their chief made some sort of
youngest shipmate, Joel, was walking
guttural utterance, intelligible only to
aft to explore another mast, one he had
those of his fellows, at which they all broke
not yet climbed, when a sudden gust of
heading and made a half circle with their
wind rolled the deck hard and sent him
canoes, paddles flailing at the water in
over the gunwales. “Man overboard!” was
attempt to get away from us. Our merciful
shouted, followed by cries of “Shark!” and
spirits took pity on them as we ceased fire
all seamen on watch came running to lend
and watched them land their boats and
hand to retrieve him from the threatening
take foot upon the beach and run, only to
deep. It spat him back out at us as we
become lost in the thick jungle overgrowth
grappled at his arms and legs, pulling him
that was their island. Kathy spun the wheel
aboard. He was none the worse for wear,
seaward, and we once again continued our
albeit embarrassed for the likes of it. No
journey, this time with greater caution.
other mishaps of ill-advised foot placement
Eight bells. High noon. Dead calm.
were recorded in the ship’s log that day,
Our enthusiasm flagged. Hot, and adrift
as all took heed of what had happened,
without the ether’s push behind us. We felt
and what acting without regard for the
depleted and unsure of what to do next.
unexpected meant while at sea.
Restlessness invaded our disposition,
Tired from the averted disaster and
but yet each was filled with a fatigue that
selfless acts of heroism, we now all lay
prevented us from carrying on. Then,
prone upon the deck with eyes closed,
suddenly, a harkening from one of the
deeply drinking of the warm sun upon
distant islands off our starboard quarter
our faces, and were made drowsy by
was heard. “Lunch!” With this rousing
the rhythmic rocking of the deck as the
call, Kathy and I headed off back home
wind lulled us as if back in our cradles of
for provisions. John and Joel went off to
perhaps ten years previous. To an observer, their respective island for the same, and
I’m sure we appeared as turtles lined along we agreed to muster back at the ship
a half submerged log, soaking in the sun
afterward when we would be refreshed and
rays to warm their blood. So it was with
fit again.
us, taking advantage of what nature had to
We all had a fine mess, returned to our
offer for our growth and well being.
vessel, finding our vigor restored, and
After a time, my reverie was shaken
continued on our journey of discovery.
with a shout of “Cannibals! All hands on
There were a few more challenging
Deck! Man the guns!” And sure enough,
encounters that afternoon with a
the ever aware and sharp-eyed John had
hurricane, as the wind had come up again,
spotted three canoes heading our way,
and pirates. The pirates went much the
as while at rest, we had approached an
same way as the cannibals, having no
uncharted island unawares. I could hear
stomach for the staunch resistance as
the thrumming cadence of the lead canoe’s
what we gave. Our cannon came into play
chief metering out a beat the paddlers
as we loosed our shot at them, wrecking
followed, making them appear at a distance their vessel for strategic maneuvering,
as some sort of mechanical toy with
leaving it seaworthy enough to employ
their simultaneous stroke. But, mark my
their retreat. We found these actions to not
word, they were no toy. Never was seen
be as extensive as those experienced in the
such a band of savage and bloodthirsty
morning, and were over much sooner once
renegades. Wild hair and painted faces
they had begun. Perhaps it was due to our
marked their visage, a sight one might have
increased maturity in dealing with such
easily thought up in a nightmare. They
threats, that they were disposed of more
approached.
expediently than were our earlier dealings
We took up arms. Being the individuals
with untried ventures.
of proper deportment that we were, we
The rest of the voyage was peaceful, and
held our breath and waited, keeping our
we had time for reflecting conversation,
fire until the foe committed to battle by
free from further imagined challenge.
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experiences as children in the moment
and not as sailors on the bounding main.
John told us of a teacher who was pressing
him for greater academic results that was
echoed by his parents. Joel was hurt by a
seemingly innocent nickname, Jojo, that
made him feel small, unimportant, and
ineffective. Kathy spoke of the unrealistic
expectations our mother had been placing
upon her outward appearance. Although
their words did not use those terms, as
their meaning would not be known to
any child, the theme of their experiences
would make an internal connection and
bring understanding as we developed into
adulthood. My experiences and feelings
would remain silent and unshared for many
more years. With time, I too would be able
to feel these things as my shipmates had at
an earlier age, and make sense of the world
to a somewhat greater degree than before.
I would go on to resign my self-appointed
role as captain, as I became aware that I
was merely a passenger upon my ship.
All of us grew to become contributors to
the society in which we were placed. We
made decisions on behalf of, and issued
encouragement and warning to, others as
well as ourselves. We based this upon what
we understood of our world, and what
we had learned in our travels. We would
be far from the perfect and exquisitely
successful souls we had imagined ourselves
to be upon the open waters, but we were
experienced. We were experienced with
near death, experienced with foes that
would tear us asunder, experienced with
storms of the soul and mind, and pirates!

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the time spent shopping for drapery, who
would remark on how nicely the pleats
hung or how the color complemented the
tile flooring instead of criticizing him.
A woman who would have been home
helping instead of off adventuring.
Bruce and Elizabeth, our 17-year-old
daughter, were watching television when I
came downstairs. Regretting my negative
comments about the new bathroom curtain,
I casually asked, “So, what’s with the body
wash — the pheromone infused one?”
Elizabeth looked up from the TV. “I
wondered about that too.”
Bruce, from his usual spot on the couch,
replied “The Dial? It was on sale. $2.79.”
After describing the cost of the other
brands he added, “I don’t even know what
pheromones are.”
I thought this answer came a tad fast. I
countered, “Well, you know what ‘attraction
enhancing’ means.”
“I don’t think it says that.”
At this point Elizabeth, clearly enjoying
our exchange, happily ran upstairs
for the offending cleanser and rushed
back downstairs to read aloud the
aforementioned descriptions.
Bruce, wearing a long sleeved white
t-shirt pallid against his winter skin and
black shorts with multi-colored socks,
refused to understand the implications
and suggested there was no need for
enhancement as he had always been a “stud
muffin.” Then he turned his gaze back to
the antics on Storage Wars.
I couldn’t let it go. For the next several
mornings I faced the accusatory block
letters throbbing against the blue ribbon.
I wondered if this was how it happens,
small omens laughed off or dismissed in
the busyness of work, raising kids, and the
sweet complacency of marriage. I couldn’t
resist Googling “pheromones” and found
scant evidence to support liquid soap as a
sexual attractant. And the body wash’s list
of ingredients actually read nearly the same
as my shampoo’s. Of course this wasn’t the
important thing. It’s not the reality of the
ingredient, but the belief system created.
Tell yourself you’re more enhancing and the
odds are you will be.
That’s what I would tell one of my
psychotherapy clients anyway — right after
gently confronting the insecurity lurking
around the edges of the story. At the same
time I might wonder aloud to him or her,
“Why all the concentration on this?”
To switch chairs for a minute and answer
my own question — I can feel the blush
crawling up my face — aren’t I the one with
the opportunities? Night after night of post
conference schmoozing and, at the very
least, all that elbow rubbing?

It’s not only opportunity. It’s history. My
family includes generations of adventurers
and gallivanters. Heck, both my greatgrandfather and father became mid-life
runaways, and my maternal grandfather
was infamous for a septuagenarian fling
with his cousin Bernice.
It seems my over-concentration on
body wash may have been scented with
projection.
But it’s the adventuring I’m attracted to,
not some need to stray — a desire, stronger
with age, to be off exploring more than at
home decorating. It’s an itchy feeling of not
fitting in when everyone gathers around
the TV for the night. With this analysis I
understand that my fears of becoming like
my overanxious mother may have kept
me from recognizing the more captivating
danger — that of my father’s wanderlust.
I mull these ideas while I pin back the
curtain a week later, the color nice against
the woodwork, the window no longer
muffled.
“Did you see how I changed the curtain?”
I asked Bruce when he hadn’t praised my
domestic exertion within an hour.
“Yea, I thought I already said that. You
can see the backyard a lot better.”
He was right — the view was much
improved. The hammock swaying between
our two apple trees, the new outdoor
furniture on the patio, and the baskets of
flowers hanging from the fence were all
more inviting without the gauzy material
in the way. However, too often it was my
thoughts that I saw when I looked out
the window, my focus coming to rest on
whatever confirmed the images tumbling
around my head. Or maybe all those sneaky
pheromones caterwauling through the
air and just looking for trouble continued
to blur my vision. Most days though, the
cars that journeyed on the highway visible
beyond our backyard caught my eye at least
as much as the hammock, the planters, and
the deck chairs.

Joanne Nelson’s writing appears in
literary journals such as Midwestern
Gothic, Brevity, Consequence, and
Redivider. In addition, she presents
on topics related to mindfulness and
writing, creativity, and the personal
essay. Nelson lives in Hartland, Wisconsin
where she leads community programs,
maintains a psychotherapy practice, and
adjuncts. More information is available
at wakeupthewriterwithin.com.

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This story captures what I think (and
maybe hope for my own sake!) is a common
experience of seeing something and making
assumptions about the people in our lives.
There’s an uncertainty many of us have
that can send us spiraling, even when we,
like the author, should know better. It’s
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that those feelings come from somewhere,
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I came home from the conference buoyed
by the breakout sessions, refreshed by
time with friends, and packing plenty of
convention hall swag. My flight came in
early, my luggage arrived safely, and my
husband, Bruce, picked me up outside the
airport as planned.
The house sparkled and smelled of PineSol when I walked in. I was glad to be home
in my familiar, predictable place of spouse,
kids, and dogs — and grateful for my better
half, a guy who actually enjoys cleaning
and takes good care of the family.
After I unpacked, I headed into the
upstairs bathroom and discovered a new
ruby colored curtain adorning the window
that overlooks our backyard. I called to
Bruce, “It’s okay, but it sure cuts off the
view.”
“We can take it down.”
“No, no, it’s fine.”
In the shower, washing the travel away
and returning to myself as wife and mom,
I noticed a new body wash. Dial for Men.
It sported an attractive red and gold label
featuring the word “Magnetic” and, in block
uppercase letters, the tag, ATTRACTION
ENHANCING. Underneath this, also in
block uppercase, but penetrated by a strip
of manly blue, the phrase: PHEROMONE
INFUSED. What, you might ask yourself
— as I did, while working my own mildmannered shampoo into my hair — is a
contented husband doing with body wash
labeled “pheromone infused?” And, you
might wonder — again, as I did by the
time I moved onto conditioner — exactly
what pheromone infused means. I thought
pheromones were naturally occurring
chemicals that made the person across the
room hot for you as long as you were single
and unattached, but then withered away
once you became happily married.
I recognized, with the sixth sense borne
of my many years as a social worker, that
I was avoiding any cognitive or emotional
examination of the phrase “attraction
enhancing.” It crossed my mind that
product placement in such a highly
trafficked area — used by daughters, guests,
and me — implied a certain innocence
or obliviousness. However, it might also
suggest an initial, subconscious inkling
of dissatisfaction in what had seemed,
only moments earlier, a solid marriage. In
fact, toweling off, I pictured myself typing
these very words on some future tearful
morning, alone but for a lukewarm cup of
coffee, relating how I missed the first signs
of trouble, let my attention waver, and paid
the price — the children only visiting, the
dogs forlorn, and the house for sale. Bruce
now with a woman more appreciative of
his fresh look, one who would recognize

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It is April, warmer sun bringing a gentle day. Leafless branches, no touch of green yet
to be seen, frame my view of Lake Michigan. Yesterday, at this same place along the bluff,
I saw whitecaps breaking in steady rows upon the beach below. Today, with no wind, all
is still.
I live in Milwaukee and today I am in my place on a wooden bench in Lake Park, a short
walk from the senior residence I call home. My husband and I named it our bench, the
first of many resting places along a winding path we also called ours. From the first day,
we used that possessive plural...and developed a comfortable pattern when in the park:
We walked a bit together, then Jim stopped at a bench with a good view while I continued
further down the path. He always encouraged me to keep walking and I knew he was
content, waiting for my return to tell stories of what he had observed in my absence.
Black and white photos of the late 1800s show women in long dresses and men in top
hats sitting or strolling sedately along the same pathways we use now. They would be
surprised to see skateboarders and joggers, but the lawn-bowlers of today still wear the
whites of an earlier time. Beyond their court is a playground with swings and ball fields
where families gather to watch their offspring kick, throw or hit balls of any shape and
size. The same families return in the evening with picnic suppers, ready for music under
the tree and stars.
The combination of relaxing and doing would please Frederick Law Olmsted, the
landscape architect who in the late 1890s designed Lake Park. Known for his planning
of Central Park in New York City, he envisioned the same natural landscaping with
meandering paths offering surprising vistas at every turn. There are no formal gardens,
just 138 acres of open meadow-like spaces, wild areas of shrubbery, growths of trees,
and a waterfall. Two iron bridges guarded by eight concrete lions span ravines filled
with wildlife and, if you look over the railings, you’ll see cedar paths cutting through
woodlands to the lake beyond. Fallen trees and shrubbery provide safe hiding places for
wildlife. Straight lines stretching out to other straight lines did not interest Frederick
Olmsted.
Here on our bench, I recall the day we found another couple sitting here and moved to
the next bench. That is when I noticed a bronze plaque attached to the slats forming the
back. Etched into the plate was a quote attributed to Albert Einstein,
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening
our circle of compassion to embrace
all living creatures and the whole of nature’s beauty.
The words were chosen by a family with a canine friend, Skipper Bud. We were curious
about those who honored a dog and a scientific genius in the same sentence.
Our discussion was interrupted by voices rising from the beach below and unfamiliar
bird song coming from the trees along the bluff in front of us. Our world was no longer
anchored to one small bench: with no effort on our part, we had widened our circle.
Einstein’s words made us curious about the trilling and tweeting in the trees in front of
us, the lives of the those playing in the sand below.
A brief return to our bench showed no such inspiration and dedication. But what about
the next one down the path? I got up and walked over to investigate and read,
Nature speaks in symbols and signs.
The words etched into the plaque were attributed to James Greenleaf Whittier. Jim had
vague memories of a distant classroom…an old woman and a soldier on horseback. At our
age, names and dates slip and slide, in and out so easily! What can you do but smile?
That first day, we wandered from bench to bench, reading the words of Frederick Law
Olmsted, Virgil, John Muir, Mary Oliver, and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. In less than half a
block, we met a scientist, philosopher, adventurer...and poets. Because I carry a notebook
in my pocket like all writers do, I wrote down the names and the quotes attributed to
them. My plan was to find all the benches with such tributes, write them in my book,
research the authors, then write a poem in response, maybe to the person sitting on the
bench, the writer of the words, or myself. Jim nodded in careful agreement, but vowed to
stay out of the ravines.
We found benches everywhere...along the familiar bluff path, around the mini golf
course, and in the open meadow. At the top of the waterfall, A.R. Ammons and John Muir
mused about the power of wind. William Stafford wished us to sit and converse with a
Civil War hero captured in bronze across the way. And the two benches honoring Joyce
Kilmer were in a grove of trees, of course! I explored the ravines on my own, venturing
beyond crumbling passageways to the baseball diamonds and summer stage where I
discover Robbie Burns facing the lawn bowling court, Hamlin Garland hidden at the edge
of the woods and Aldo Leopold across from the playground.
Since we knew little about the illustrious men and women whose words we found,
I delved deeper into their lives. For example, that man on the second bench...James
Greenleaf Whittier? Jim was right. All school children from a certain time knew about
Barbara Frietchie’s old grey head and that barefoot boy with cheek of tan. Of course,
that Whittier! But we did not know about him as fervent abolitionist, friend of Emerson
and Longfellow, radical reformer and Quaker. The poem I wrote pictured Whittier in the
silence of a Quaker meeting room, but seemed directed at Jim. When I closed with these
lines,
Share this bench with him
and listen for
the still, small voice
he knows speaks into the quiet

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he understood, for my husband was a quiet man who relished his moments of solitude in
the midst of days filling with changes he found hard to accept.
It was strange: While in the park, whether walking or resting, we relished the thought
that nothing stayed the same: one day the lake holding three shades of blue and white
waves, a red boat with a yellow sail; the next day, offering oil tankers floating in the air,
suspended between grey sky and water of the same color. These surprises from one day
to the next seemed right, natural. Changes in our own lives were different. They were
happening to us...without our permission, setting both of us on edge.
Yet, we were also learning how to find peace. John Muir spoke into the quiet we came
to appreciate. The Father of the National Parks read Emerson while camping among the
Redwoods of Yosemite, and from this place shared,
Nature’s peace will flow into you
As sunshine flows into trees.

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And full-leafed trees shaded us that summer, while providing nesting places for robins
and anchors for hammocks. Among them we could rest easy. Anton Chekhov, wrote of
what we were learning, but could not say aloud, his gentle lesson,
Let us learn to appreciate
There will be times when
The trees will be bare.

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whispered soft, while we relished every walk, every rest, every glorious moment of
summer.
Jim often walked to the park and did not get further than our bench. And I walked
alone, exploring hidden corners, finding benches deep in ravines full of shade. Together
or separately, we watched summer leave and autumn arrive, unaware our bare time was
coming, was closer than we thought.
The trees that autumn never seemed more beautiful...golden maples and red sumac
bright against blue sky and lake. Jim sat more and walked less. One day, after watching a
flock of geese move across the horizon, we went to Mary Oliver’s bench and read together,

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The world offers itself to your imagination,
Calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting
We did not leave the spot until the last geese were out of sight, the sky quiet. Did we
talk about the last three words? I don’t remember.
In late fall, Jim stayed at home as winds from the north blew the last leaves from the
trees. The park I visited was one of bare trees and brown grass. But the lake was still
blue, the benches still inviting. Returning to my desk at home, I wrote,
Only when the leaves fall, can we see the stretch
of sand below the bluff, the lake stretching to the sky.
Only then, can we see the shape of each tree,
how their branches reach for the sky.

I finally understood the words of Chekhov, words we read together in the full bloom of
summer.
In winter, with sidewalks and paths too slippery for walking, I stayed inside, writing
poems, responding to the quotes we both knew. Jim sat in his big chair, content to watch
the snow fall outside his window. In that quiet, I remembered a poem written in the 8th
century, attributed to Anonymous, who I decided was an Irish monk living in a beehive
hut. He wrote,

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In the peace of that time, with the days so short and the nights so long, I responded,
I too sit in quiet, light holding me in place
moving across the pages, the margins of my life.
Jim died in March, a week before the returning of light, the Vernal Equinox. Suddenly
my whole world changed. My companion of 56 years no longer walked beside me. I was
alone. I did not return to Lake Park until the snow melted. Then, though trying to become
at ease with the first person singular, I headed for our bench.
I sat still, looking around me, taking in a different silence. When a Red-winged
Blackbird called from a thicket of trees below the bluff, I got up, eager to get a glimpse of
this harbinger of spring, early arrival to a still-cold world. He was elusive, drawing me
further down our path. After a nod to Einstein and Whittier, I came to Frederick Law
Olmsted. I stopped there, reading and rereading,
Gradually and silently the charm comes over us,
The beauty has entered our soul.

Kathleen Phillips lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Home is Eastcastle Place, a senior residence three
blocks from Lake Michigan. On the bluff overlooking
the water is Lake Park. That is where she and her
husband walked as often as they could before his
death. That is the place where they both found
wonder...and she found poetry. This piece tells of
that journey, the journey two people in their 80s
who have walked together for 56 years and finding
peace at the end. She is a member of WFOP and has
been published in many journals and anthologies.

“

We all have routines and things we think of as ours,
like the bench and the routine described in this story.
And yet, just by stepping even a bit outside that
routine – to another bench – we can often discover
something entirely new about a familiar place. This is
a big story about a small thing – a park bench.

He spoke of beauty...and I recalled what Jim and I found here in this park along the
bluff. He spoke of the soul, of what we often felt, but could not see...the song of the
blackbird, the sound the wind makes in bare branches, water in waves moving to the
shore. And, in this time and place, gradually and silently, I added to that list: the voice
of a loved one who never leaves, Jim’s voice whispering words only I could hear, that in
the midst of life that would continue to change, he would always be near, waiting in the
silence we both learned to loved.

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• This winter, visitors to Winter Park in
Kewaunee County will head to the top of its
six-lane snow tubing hill via a Magic Carpet.
The standing conveyor belt lift, which was
ordered in spring, has arrived and the Kewaunee
County Promotion & Recreation Department,
as well as the Winter Park Association, will
soon begin installation. In preparation for
the moving walkway, the snow tubing hill
has been reshaped. Framing will be done
before the mat is rolled up the 220-foot slope
of the hill that has a 70-foot vertical drop.
The Magic Carpet is replacing the tow rope,
which is being repurposed at the beginner’s
ski hill after it’s retrofitted with handles. “This
is a huge improvement to Winter Park,” said
Dave Myers, Kewaunee County Promotions
& Recreation Director. “We’re going to be the
one and only snow tubing hill in our area to
have this feature for visitors, which will be more
efficient and fun to ride.” Last season at Winter
Park, approximately 6,700 of the 7,200 visitors
purchased passes for the snow tubing hill during
the six weeks it was open.
• The Wisconsin Department of Natural
Resources announced this week that it reissued
a Wisconsin Pollutant Discharge Elimination
System (WPDES) Permit to El-Na Farms LLC
in the Town of Lincoln in Kewaunee County.
The farm has approximately 1,350 milking and
dry cows, 850 heifers and 500 calves, equaling
2,675 animal units, which produce approximately
16.5 million gallons of manure and process
wastewater as well as 5,000 tons of solid manure
annually, on approximately 4,982 acres. The
permit took effect Aug. 1 and is good through
July 31, 2022. The farm plans to expand to 5,970
animal units. In responding to public comments
about the growth of this CAFO at a permit
hearing held in Luxemburg on June 27, the DNR
wrote: “The Department does not claim that
CAFO WPDES permits are ‘zero risk’ permits and
the Department acknowledges that there have
been impacts associated with CAFOs, some of
those impacts have been significant. However,
the Department believes that the WPDES
permit program has been an effective means to
address these impacts and avoid impacts from
occurring in the future. As with any license or
permit that is issued, there is always the potential
for environmental impacts associated with
permit noncompliance or situations not easily
or explicitly addressed by prescriptive permit
requirements.”

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COMING UP
• The Southern Door County School District
will hold its Back-to-School Registration Days
Aug. 9-10, from 12:30-7 pm in the Eagle Gym.
Registration is for all returning and new students.
Individual enrollment packets have already been
mailed to the homes of returning students.
Parents of new students should contact the
district office to request enrollment information.
During registration, families will have the
opportunity to complete various school forms,
pay student fees, and deposit money to meal
accounts. Grades Pre-K-5 students will learn
their classroom teacher’s name and grades 6-12
students will receive their schedules. If parents
are unable to register their children during
the registration days, they should make other
arrangements with their child’s respective school
office as soon as possible.
• Lake Michigan Stakeholders will host the
annual Lake Michigan Day to explore water
quality and water quantity challenges and
opportunities facing the region Aug. 11 from
9 am – 4 pm. Cameron Davis, the Obama
Administration’s liaison to Congress on Great
Lakes issues and a lead author of the Great
Lakes Legacy Act, will be the keynote speaker.
A panel discussion led by former Racine Mayor
John Dickert includes the mayors of Port
Washington, Sheboygan and Manitowoc and
will highlight the importance of funding for the
Great Lakes Restoration Initiative. Businesses and
individuals will also be honored as Champions
of Conservation for their efforts to protect
Lake Michigan. The meeting will be held at the
Wisconsin Maritime Museum, 70 Maritime Drive,
Manitowoc, WI 53220. Registration is required to
attend. For more information and a schedule of
events, visit lakemichiganstakeholders.org.

ome see it as a jumpstart
for Wisconsin to shake
off its Rust Belt trappings
and enter the 21st century,
while others see the deal with
Taiwanese contract manufacturer
Foxconn Technology Group as
the sort of corporate welfare that
House Speaker Paul Ryan and
President Donald Trump have
railed against in the past.
“This is a once-in-a-century
opportunity for our state and
our country, and Wisconsin is
ready,” Gov. Scott Walker said
in a statement announcing the
Foxconn plan, which includes $3
billion in state tax breaks to the
tech giant to build a $10 billion
plant in southeastern Wisconsin
to make flat-screen TVs. Initially
the plant would hire 3,000 workers
and could grow, according to Gov.
Walker, to 13,000 workers.
Under the deal, Foxconn
would receive up to $200 million
annually in refundable tax credits
for 15 years, up to $2.85 billion.
It also waives $150 million in
sales taxes on building materials,
equipment and supplies.
The draft legislation also calls
for issuing up to $252.4 million in
state debt to update beleaguered
Interstate 94, which is in the area
being considered for the plant.
Troubling to environmental
groups, the draft legislation
also waives the required state
environmental impact statement
and does away with wetland and
waterway permitting.
“A rollback of such an extreme
nature is unnecessary,” the
nonpartisan Wisconsin League
of Conservation Voters said in a
statement.
Others have pointed out
that Foxconn has a history of
making big promises without
delivering, and point to a plant
in Pennsylvania that never
materialized and several others
around the world. And at least
one economist, Michael J. Hicks at
Ball State University, wrote in a
column at Marketwatch.com that,
“Foxconn bears no meaningful
risk in this deal.”
But after a meeting with Gov.
Walker and other officials on
Tuesday, Rep. Joel Kitchens said
he and his colleagues learned
more about the deal.
Kitchens said going into the
meeting, he had a pretty good
understanding of the economic
side of the deal, but he did
have some concerns about
environmental questions.
“It’s being portrayed that
we’re giving them a pass on
all this stuff,” Kitchens said. “I
really feel pretty comfortable
about it at this point. We’re just
trying to streamline it. When
the chairman [Terry Gou] was
looking at Wisconsin, one of the
most important things to him
is that it could be done quickly.
He wanted this place up and

running as soon as possible.
We’re trying to streamline the
process. Wastewater treatment,
air pollution standards, exactly
the same, all federal requirements
the same. It’s just the permitting
process that’s being changed.”
For example, he mentions the
state waiving the environmental
impact study.
“That takes a year to do that
and in the end all it is, is an
advisory. They still have to do
a federal environmental impact
study,” Kitchens said, adding the
Wisconsin Department of Natural
Resources will oversee the project.
“In the case of wetlands
remediation, normally you’re
required to replace 1.2 acres for
every acre that you degrade,”
Kitchens said. “We bumped it up
to two acres. They don’t have to
go through the permitting process
ahead of time, but the DNR will be
watching and they will certainly
be held to the standard that is
required. It is incumbent upon us
that the DNR provides necessary
oversight. There’s not a single
standard being loosened for them.
It’s just the permitting process.”
As far as the economics,
Kitchens said unlike other states
that made corporate deals without
promises of jobs, the Foxconn deal
is tied to performance.
“They don’t get a penny until
they’ve hired people and until we
see paystubs,” he said. “If they
don’t produce the jobs, they don’t
get the money.”
Kitchens agrees that it is a
good deal for Foxconn, but adds,
“honestly for me it goes beyond
just what this plant will produce.
I think it can transform the
economy. We’re sort of stuck
in the Rust Belt economy and
we need to move into the 21st
century. We can’t do that by
sitting back. These companies
have a lot of places they can go,
and we can argue philosophically
that we shouldn’t give away
money to businesses, well, every
other place is doing it, so you’re
either in the game or you’re not.
I think compared to other deals
other states have done, it’s a
pretty good deal.”
Kitchens mentions there has
already been talk that American
glass manufacturer Corning
could invest another $1 billion
to set up shop close to Foxconn
as a supplier of glass for the LCD
screens.
“Supposedly they will have
150 suppliers, and they want
people that are close,” Kitchens
said. “I think a lot of Wisconsin
businesses are going to see
benefits from it or even be created
from it. That’s where there’s an
impact. And 10,000 people to do
the construction.”
Kitchens added that Foxconn
would like to break ground next
May. Gov. Walker is expected
to call a special session of the
legislature to consider the
Foxconn deal.

DOT Seeks
Comments
on Remote
Bridge
Operations

T

he Wisconsin Department of
Transportation (WisDOT) held a
public meeting Aug. 1 to present data
about the test period of remote operations of
the three Sturgeon Bay bridges.
All three bridges have been operated
from the Oregon Street Bridge since 2014.
The Michigan Street Bridge has operated
remotely since 2011. The United States
Coast Guard (USCG) will evaluate the
data and public comments and determine
whether to extend the test period, modify
the arrangement, or make the remote
operation arrangement permanent.
Operating the bridges remotely has
brought bridge operations costs down
from $1.03 million per year to $340,000,
almost entirely through manpower savings,
according to Jason Lahm from the WisDOT.
If the operation is made permanent and
added to the national register, it would
make the canal the first waterway operated
entirely remotely in the United States, Lahm
said.
The WisDOT is still accepting questions
and comments from the public by email at
jason.lahm@dot.wi.gov.

MUNICIPAL
NEWS
DOOR COUNTY
City of Sturgeon Bay: The Finance/
Purchasing & Building Committee
meets Aug. 8 at 4 pm. The Community
Protection & Service Committee meets
Aug. 10 at 4:30 pm.
County of Door: The Library Board
meets at 5 pm Aug. 7. The Human
Services Board meets at 8:30 am Aug. 8.
The Comprehensive Community Services
Coordinated Services Team Children’s
Community Options Program Committee
meets at noon Aug. 8. The Board of
Adjustment meets at 6:30 pm Aug. 8.
The Ag & Extension Committee meets at
8:30 am Aug. 9. The Property Committee
meets at 9 am Aug. 9. The Airport & Parks
Committee meets at 1:30 pm Aug. 9. The
IS Committee meets at 2 pm Aug. 10.
Town of Brussels: The town board
meets at 7 pm Aug. 9.
Town of Clay Banks: The town board
meets at 6 pm Aug. 10.
Town and Village of Egg Harbor: Joint
meeting at the Egg Harbor Town Hall at 6
pm Aug. 9.
Town of Jacksonport: The Parks
Committee meets at 7 pm Aug. 7.

KEWAUNEE COUNTY
City of Algoma: The common council
meets at 6 pm Aug. 7. The Tourism &
Promotion Committee meets at 1:30
pm Aug. 8. The Zoning Board of Appeals
meets at 6 pm Aug. 8. The Parks &
Recreation Committee meets at 7 pm
Aug. 8.
County of Kewaunee: The Land &
Water Committee meets at 9 am Aug. 8.
The Finance Committee meets at 8 am
Aug. 10. The Law/EM Committee meets
at 9 am Aug. 10.
Town of Carlton: The town board
meets at 7 pm Aug. 8.
Town of Lincoln: The town board
meets at 7 pm Aug. 7.
Town of Red River: The town board
meets at 7:30 pm Aug. 9.
Village of Casco: The village board
meets at 7 pm Aug. 8.

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YOUR REPS IN THE NEWS

Engineers estimate it will cost up to $148,739 to stabilize the old granary
building in Sturgeon Bay. Photo by Jacob Dannhausen-Brun.

Council Votes to
Tear Down Granary
by MYLES DANNHAUSEN JR.
myles@ppulse.com

T

he old granary building on Sturgeon Bay’s west waterfront will be razed in January if a
private group or individual does not come forward with funds and a plan to save it by Jan.
1, 2018.
The granary, which may be added to the National Register of Historic Places this month, has
fallen into disrepair since the city purchased it in 2012.
After Fire Chief Timothy Dietman issued an emergency order barring access to the building for
safety reasons May 26, the city solicited bids to stabilize or raze the structure. Estimates to raze
the building ranged from $65,000 – $85,000, while estimates to stabilize the structure ranged from
$138,739 – $148,739.
Those estimates made Alderman Stewart Fett lean toward razing the structure.
“Obviously, if you read through it the foundation is in bad, bad shape and needs significant
money to be repaired,” Fett said.
Fett motioned to demolish the building no sooner than Jan. 1, 2018, to allow time for a group or
person to come forward to save or restore the elevator.
In the public comment period, city resident Hans Christian presented a rough outline for a
Center for the Arts that could incorporate the granary. Christian said the center would possibly
serve as a new home for existing arts organizations and an educational center.
Alderman Ron Vandertie blamed the lawsuit brought by Friends of Sturgeon Bay Public
Waterfront for the predicament.
“The reason the granary is still standing is because there was a pricetag of $65,000 to tear it
down, and we were led to believe there was interest in using the building in new development,”
he said. “Since the lawsuit, we’ve not only lost the brewpub restaurant, but we’ve lost a developer
who possibly would restructure and use it. It’s the lawsuit that has put us all behind the eight
ball.”
The motion carried with Alderwomen Barbara Allmann, Kelly Catarozoli and Laurel Hauser
dissenting.

by MYLES DANNHAUSEN JR.
myles@ppulse.com

T

Senator Tammy Baldwin
Sen. Baldwin has successfully
worked to restore the Community
Development Block Grant (CDBG)
program. She led the fight against
President Trump’s budget proposal to
eliminate the federal CDBG program,
which funds local community
development initiatives that support
jobs, housing, infrastructure, and public
services for millions of Americans.
“From touring neighborhood
revitalization projects to delivering a
Meals-on-Wheels care package, I’ve
seen how Community Development
Block Grants help people and drive
economic development all across
Wisconsin,” Baldwin said. “I led the
fight in the Senate against President
Trump’s proposed elimination of the
CDBG program, and I’m proud that
we will reverse these cuts in bipartisan
legislation that passed committee and
is moving forward. Together, we can
continue to make differences in the
lives of so many families in Wisconsin.”
Trump’s budget proposal would
have reduced funding for the CDBG
program from $3 billion to zero.
In response, Senator Baldwin led a
group of 42 Senators in calling to
maintain full federal funding the U.S.
Department of Housing and Urban
Development’s (HUD) Community
Development Block Grant program in
the Fiscal Year 2018. As a member of
the Senate Appropriations Committee,
Baldwin successfully restored full
federal funding of CDBG in the FY2018
Transportation, Housing and Urban
Development Appropriations Bill.
This bipartisan legislation passed the
Appropriations Committee and is now
moving to the full Senate for a vote.
Source: Baldwin press release

President Donald Trump
President Trump predicted the
U.S. would curb North Korea’s
nuclear program, days after the
nation conducted its latest test of an
intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).
“We’ll handle North Korea. We’ll be
able to handle North Korea. It will
be handled. We handle everything,”
Trump told reporters during a Cabinet
meeting at the White House. On July
28, North Korea launched its second
ballistic missile in less than a month,
raising concerns about Pyongyang’s
capabilities to strike the U.S. mainland.
Experts believe the ICBM could
potentially hit the United States’ West
Coast. American presidents have long
vowed to prevent North Korea from
gaining such a weapon. “I am very
disappointed in China,” Trump tweeted
on July 29. “Our foolish past leaders
have allowed them to make hundreds
of billions of dollars a year in trade, yet
they do NOTHING for us with North
Korea, just talk. We will no longer allow
this to continue. China could easily
solve this problem!”
Source: thehill.com

he battle over Sturgeon Bay’s west
waterfront took a new turn Aug.
1. The common council voted to
approve the settlement agreement reached
between the city’s negotiating committee
and the Friends of Sturgeon Bay Public
Waterfront (FSBPW) concerning the
location of the Ordinary High Water Mark
(OHWM) on the west waterfront.
The decision comes after the Waterfront
Redevelopment Authority (WRA), which
was also named in the lawsuit brought by
the FSBPW, voted against the settlement
July 26.
In June, the city’s ad hoc negotiating
committee and FSBPW met for two days
to resolve the lawsuit. That resulted in
an agreement to jointly recommend to
the Wisconsin Department of Natural
Resources (DNR) that it approve an
ordinary high water mark parallel to and
60 feet waterward of the original meander
line in the U.S. government land survey of
1835 for parcel 92 next to the Door County
Maritime Museum.

Both the WRA and common council
need to agree to the settlement for it to be
submitted for official approval by the DNR,
so it’s unclear if the council’s decision will
inch the city closer to resolving the impasse.
The DNR will meet with city representatives
Aug. 3 to set a date for a declaratory
hearing that may determine the OHWM.
The settlement passed in a 4 – 3 vote after
the council deliberated in closed session
for about 40 minutes. Alderpersons Kelly
Catarozoli, Laurel Hauser, Barbara Allmann
and David Ward voted in favor. Aldermen
Richard Wiesner, Stewart Fett, and Ron
Vandertie voted against the settlement.
Before convening in closed session,
Catarozoli pleaded with the counsel to stay
in open session to discuss the settlement.
“Nothing we’ve discussed is information
that the city’s attorneys and the plaintiff’s
attorneys are not privy to,” Catarozoli said.
“The only people we’re keeping information
from is the public.”
Her motion to remain in open session
fell in a 4-3 vote, with Allmann and Hauser
supporting the motion.

Congressman Mike Gallagher
The House of Representatives
passed an amendment offered by
Congressman Gallagher to reduce
vulnerabilities to our nation’s
electricity supply, foster renewable
energy innovation, and improve U.S.
national security. The amendment
prioritizes the Department of Energy’s
research programs that are essential
to improving our nation’s low-cost
electricity supply and advancing
grid security. “As our nation looks
to modernize our grid, improve our
domestic energy supply, and reduce
national security risks, energy storage
technologies must become more
affordable and reliable. This fiscally
responsible amendment ensures that
our limited resources are spent on
important research initiatives rather
than Washington, D.C. bureaucrats,”
Rep. Gallagher said. “Through
bolstering public-private partnerships
that advance innovative energy storage
solutions, this amendment will help
improve our grid security and make
renewable energy more feasible, cost
effective and deployable.”
Source: Gallagher press release

Senator Ron Johnson
Sen. Johnson issued the following
statement regarding the July 28
health care vote in the Senate: “I am
disappointed not only in the failure
to pass legislation to begin to repair
the damage done by Obamacare, but
also in the dysfunctional process that
directly led to this result. Too many
people have been harmed to allow
tonight’s vote to be the end. In the
coming weeks my committee will
hold hearings to lay out the realities
of our health care system, and I am
committed to working with anyone
who is serious about addressing
these issues. Americans deserve far
better than their elected officials have
delivered to this point.”
Source: Johnson press release

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City Approves
West Waterfront
Settlement

Governor Scott Walker
The campaigns of Gov. Walker and
House Speaker Paul Ryan launched
digital ads this week touting the
decision by Foxconn Technology
Group to build a plant in Wisconsin.
The two are gearing up for the 2018
election, although Walker has yet to
formally announce that he’s running
for a third term.
Walker was the point man in
negotiations with Foxconn, while Ryan
also helped court the Taiwan-based
firm.
“Foxconn’s investment is a oncein-a-century opportunity to transform
Wisconsin’s economy, and an example
of Gov. Walker delivering results for
hard-working Wisconsin families,”
Walker campaign manager Joe
Fadness said in a statement.
Responding to the Walker ad push,
State Senate Minority Leader Jennifer
Shilling (D-La Crosse) tweeted: “Is
this a good deal for taxpayers or a
campaign re-election gimmick? Gov.
Walker seems to be blurring the lines.”
Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

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truth is strangled.”

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On the
Hunt for
by ALYSSA SKIBA
alyssa.skiba@ppulse.com

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f you’ve ever seen David LaLuzerne
meandering through Door County’s
nature preserves and county parks,
chances are he hasn’t taken much notice of
you.
“I have a tendency to do that,” he
explained. “Wherever I walk out I start
to look around, what kind of herbs are
growing now around here?”
On a gray, misty July day, we were barely

out of the parking lot at the Oak Road
Nature Preserve before LaLuzerne started
identifying herbs peeking through the
gravel drive while reciting their medicinal
values.
The Ellison Bay resident and longtime
pharmacist was preparing for his summer
field herbs hike, the second in his five-part
2017 Herb Walk series. Through these
outdoor excursions, LaLuzerne introduces
fellow hikers to the abundance of local
herbs in woodlands, fields and wetlands,
and educates them on their historical,
culinary and medicinal values.
It is a passion he has nurtured since his
introduction to herbs during pharmacy
school in the ’70s. His class was the last
to have pharmacognosy – the study of
medicinal drugs derived from natural
sources like plants and sea life – as
required coursework, and it set LaLuzerne
on a path of incorporating homeopathic
remedies into his life and career. He
eventually opened an herb and vitamin
shop called Green Earth, at one point
operating three locations in the Madison
area.

(Top) Herbalist David LaLuzerne during a July
Herb Walk at Oak Road Nature Preserve in
Egg Harbor. (Center, from left) Red clover.
St. John’s wort. Bittersweet nightshade.
Echinacea. Yarrow leaf. Queen Anne’s lace.
According to legend, Queen Anne was
making lace when she pricked her finger
with a needle and a drop of blood fell onto
the fabric. The deep red center floret of the
plant pays homage to this tale. (Right) Pulse
Arts, Lit and Entertainment Editor Alyssa Skiba
admires an Echinacea plant in bloom at Oak
Road Nature Preserve. Photos by Len Villano.

Herbs

“I started to get into the whole idea of
natural healing and what is healing all
about,” LaLuzerne said. “To me, it’s about
nourishing the body to heal itself, to restore
a balance, and that’s really what herbs do…
The issue that I have with healthcare is that
it’s really about treating symptoms and
you have to go to a doctor for that, to get a
prescription, but there’s so much we should
be able to do for ourselves. I feel like I try
to help people learn about those things and
one of the best ways to do that is through

your food and stuff that you can do for
yourself.”
His interest in educating people led to
the launch of Herb TV Online (herbtvonline.
com), an online resource for those
interested in learning about oriental
medicine, wildcrafting, herbalism and
more. Five years ago he closed up shop in
the Madison area and in 2015, he and his
wife Lynn moved to Door County, where
LaLuzerne has spent time finding and
studying local herbs. He has taught classes

at The Clearing, where interest in the topic
inspired creation of his own Herb Walks.
The hike at the Oak Road Nature
Preserve, a Door County Land Trust
preserve located northeast of Carlsville,
introduced us to the herbs growing in and
alongside the trail on the vernal wetland
portion of the land, east of Oak Road. Land
trust guidelines prohibit visitors from
collecting vegetation, wildlife and other
material from preserves, so the hikes are
purely visual, though LaLuzerne is quick
to point out that herbs found on land trust
preserves are likely to be found in your own
backyard.
While the hikes are not long in distance,
you can expect to make a stop every few
feet as LaLuzerne points out nearby herbs
and explains how to incorporate them into
your everyday wellness routine. Today,
he is excited to see echinacea in full
bloom and as we walk the damp trails, he
expounds on the value of the bergamot,
Queen Anne’s lace, St. John’s wort and red
clover we pass by.
LaLuzerne recommends three ways to
use herbs for healing: as a tea/infusion, a
tincture, or an additional ingredient in your
regular meals (think salads).
“In many ways, the best way to use any
herb is in your food, to incorporate the
whole herb into your food somehow but
the extract is better than the tea in terms
of the medicinal value,” he said. “Of course
teas can taste really good, too, and that’s
beneficial.”
To make a tincture – an alcoholic extract
of a plant – LaLuzerne chops up the plant
material, places it in a glass jar, and covers
the material with either brandy or vodka.
He gives the mixture a daily shake over the
course of two to six weeks, depending on
the material.

“If it’s flowers and leaves, usually two
weeks is enough to extract but if you have
a root or bark, which can be used in a lot
of cases, you would chop it up and then let
it extract for at least six weeks because it’s
denser material, it’s harder to make a good
extraction,” he said.
Tinctures are taken in very small doses
and can be diluted in water or juice
before drinking them (do your research to
determine best dosage). As for making tea,
the amount of plant material used depends
on whether the plant is fresh or dried.
“If you’re using a fresh plant, you
probably want a good couple tablespoons
per cup,” LaLuzerne said. “If you dry it, you
can use less, maybe one or two teaspoons.”
As for incorporating herbs into meals,
LaLuzerne recommends a variety of
preparations: boiled, roasted or raw in a
salad. When it comes down to it, the most
important part is consumption.
“Ultimately I think the body is what heals
itself and you just gotta give it the nutrients
it needs to do that,” he said. “That’s why I
like herbs.”
For those interested in getting started,
LaLuzerne recommends two guides:
Newcomb’s Wildflower Guide by Lawrence
Newcomb, and A Field Guide to Medicinal
Plants and Herbs: Eastern and Central
North America by Steven Foster and
James A. Duke.
Three hikes remain in David LaLuzerne’s
schedule. They are: Aug. 12, wetland
herbs, Reiboldt’s Creek at Moonlight
Bay; Sept. 16, mushrooms, Mink River
Trail; Oct. 14, herbs in the neighborhood,
LaLuzerne residence (12030 Garrett Bay
Road, Ellison Bay). All herb walks are
held on Saturdays from 1 – 3pm. Hikes
are $5. For more information, email
LaLuzerne at David@HerbTVOnline.com.

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LIFE NOTES
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Peninsula Pulse presents Life Notes,
devoted to the notable milestones in
life, from birth to significant birthdays to
engagements, weddings and passings.
The deadline for submissions is noon on
Friday. Send submissions to lifenotes@
ppulse.com. The Pulse reserves the right
to edit submissions to conform to space.
Call 920.839.2121 for details.

BIRTHS
Jenny Londo and Adam Nicholson,
Sturgeon Bay, are parents of a son born
on July 17, 2017, at Door County Medical
Center, Sturgeon Bay.
Elizabeth and Thomas Pratt, Sturgeon Bay,
are the parents of a daughter born on July
19, 2017, at Door County Medical Center,
Sturgeon Bay. Maternal grandparents
are Laura and Marc Enger, Farmer City,
Ill. Paternal Grandparents are Aleta and
Thomas Pratt, Coconut Grove, Ill.
Elizabeth R. Gibson and Louis W. Laboy,
Sturgeon Bay, are the parents of a son
born on July 26, 2017, at Door County
Medical Center, Sturgeon Bay. Maternal
grandparents are Barbara and Earl Gibson,
Sturgeon Bay. Paternal grandparents are
Anna Ligia Laboy Munoz, Puerto Rico, and
Santos A. Laboy Pagan, Puerto Rico.
Jennifer Lasee and Bobby Deggendorf,
Sturgeon Bay, are the parents of a
daughter born on July 26, 2017, at
Door County Medical Center, Sturgeon
Bay. Maternal grandparents are John
and Dennie Lasee, Sturgeon Bay.
Paternal grandparents are Patti and Bob
Chamberlin, Lemont, Ill.
Kori and Tyler Powell, Sturgeon Bay, are
the parents of a daughter born July 28,
2017, at Door County Medical Center,
Sturgeon Bay. Maternal grandparents are
Tami and Jim Feuerstein, Whitelaw, Wis.
Paternal grandparents are Mari Anderson,
Janesville, Wis., and Heather and Dan
Powell, Bellingham, Wash.

tinker and repair all kinds of items, going
out for breakfast at the Morning Glory,
and getting a burger and a beer for lunch.
Sonny was an extremely generous person
who had a wonderful sense of humor.
Memorial services were held July 31.
Burial was at Bayside Cemetery. In-lieu
of flowers, memorials may be given to St.
Peter’s Lutheran Church.

Edward “Ed” Ebel, 58, of Elms Road,
Sturgeon Bay, died after a yearlong battle
with esophageal cancer. He was the
youngest in the family born to Melvin and
Geraldine Ebel, in Rice Lake. He moved
with the family to Sturgeon Bay in 1965,
when Ed was seven. He married Patt A.
Magle in 1984. Ed was self-employed in
the tanning business for many years. He
enjoyed entertaining family and friends
with his home-cooking, canning and
sausagemaking. He was also a skilled
carpenter and enjoyed gardening,
boating with the kids, country music and
following the Packers. Family and friends
are invited to attend a celebration of Ed’s
life from 1 – 4 pm, Aug. 13 at Sherwood
Point Grill (formerly the Fishing Hole).
Sherwin G. Weckler
April 28, 1927 – July 26, 2017

Lindsey Donohue and Brandon Fabry,
Ephraim, are the parents of a son born July
29, 2017, at Door County Medical Center,
Sturgeon Bay. Maternal grandparents
are Karla and Mike Donohue, Gills Rock.
Paternal grandparents are Shirley and Cliff
Christl, Green Bay.
Sherwin Gustave “Sonny” Weckler, 90,
of Sturgeon Bay, died at Cardinal Ridge
CBRF with family at his side. He was
born in Door County to Clarence and
Cebell (Krause) Weckler. Sonny owned
and operated Weckler’s Hillside Court
for many years. He also worked at Griffin
Toohey Food Services, Wisconsin Foods,
and Bayship Building. Sonny loved to

Walter I. Nehlsen
Aug. 23, 1930 – July 24, 2017
Walter I. Nehlsen, 86, of Washington
Island, died after a brief illness. Walt and
his wife Evelyn retired to Washington
Island in 1998. He had many hobbies
including working in the woods, working
on tractors (John Deere only) and flying.
He managed the airport on Washington
Island for many years. Before retirement,
he farmed and ran his own electrical
wiring business in Whitewater. Walt
had a special sensitivity for serviceman,
especially those who served and died in
WWII. He was able to visit the Normandy
American Cemetery and Pearl Harbor
over the past few years. A memorial
service will be held Aug. 12, 11 am at
Bethel Church on Washington Island.
Memorials may be given in Walter’s
name and will be used for several causes
including WIChip (Service/Support on
Washington Island) and Leader Dogs for
the Blind.
Georgine “Gee” Kretzmann
Feb. 22, 1928 – June 22, 2017

Georgine (Gee) Kretzmann, 89, of
Ellison Bay, died at Hearthside Home
in Sister Bay, with her husband Conrad
(Connie) and son Mark at her bedside.
She was born to Orlando and Charlotte E.
Carner (Arndt), Cleveland, Ohio. She met
Connie while earning an English degree
at Valparaiso University. Connie and Gee
were married Aug. 27, 1950. They lived in
Chicago where their children Katherine,
Peter, and Mark were born. In 1956 they
moved to Libertyville before retiring to
Ellison Bay in 1989. In 1995 they built a
home on 10 acres of hay field thus the
name Hayfield House. Although small
in stature, Gee was large in heart. Her
years were filled with generosity, love
and compassion. On her 67th marriage
anniversary weekend, Aug. 26, 11 am, a
joyful service will be held at Shepherd
of the Bay Lutheran Church in Ellison
Bay. In lieu of flowers memorials may
be given to Compassion International,
12290 Voyager Parkway, Colorado
Springs, CO 80921-3668 or Lutheran
Social Services of Wisconsin, 3003 N
Richmond Street #A, Appleton, WI 54911.
caspersonfuneralhome.com

Members of the Billy Weiss American Legion Post 527
present a check for $1,000 to Fire Chief Chris Hecht for
the Sister Bay Liberty Grove Fire Department at their Aug.
1 meeting at the Sister Bay Village Hall. Post members
also properly disposed of American flags by burning
them in a beachfront ceremony. We’ll have more on that
ceremony in next week’s Pulse. Photo by Jim Lundstrom.

DOOR NOTES
• The Sturgeon Bay Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3088
will conduct their annual “Buddy Poppy” drive Aug. 4 &
5. They will be at the following locations: Sturgeon Bay –
Econofoods, Pick ‘N Save, Walgreens from 8 am – 6 pm;
and Egg Harbor – Main Street Market from 7:30 am – 7:30
pm.
• The Ridges Sanctuary celebrates their 80th
Anniversary and the Cook-Albert Fuller Nature Center
Building Dedication Aug. 5. The Nature Center will be open
from 9 am to 5 pm, with the usual 10 am Guided Sanctuary
hikes. The Dedication Ceremony begins at 11:30 am and will
be followed by a grill-out from 12 – 2 pm. Guided Sanctuary
hikes will again be available at 2 pm. No reservations
necessary. The Cook-Albert Fuller Nature Center is located
at 8166 Hwy 57, Baileys Harbor.
• Saints Peter and Paul Parish in Institute will hold their
annual fish boil and polka mass Aug. 6. Polka mass begins
at 9:30 am and the all-you-can-eat fish boil goes from 11
am – 2 pm. All plates include onion, potatoes, rye bread,
coleslaw and dessert bars. Also scheduled during the day
is a Belgian pie sale before and after mass Aug. 5 and 6;
music all day from Jerry Voelker and the Jolly Gents; flea
market in the church basement from 9 am – 3 pm; and a
silent auction with bag auction items. The cost for fish is $13
adults, $6 kids (5-10), and free for kids ages 4 and younger;
and $6 adults and $3 kids (5-10) for a hot dog or sloppy Joe
plate. The event is held rain or shine and is the annual major
fundraiser for the parish. The Saints Peter and Paul Parish is
located at the intersection of Highway 57 and Dunn Road in
Institute.
• Doulagivers of Door County hopes the community
will join their monthly community discussion about
end-of-life topics. The next meeting is Aug. 8, 6 – 7:30 pm
at the Sturgeon Bay Library, 107 S. 4th Ave. Each month
there will be a short educational presentation, followed by
open discussion between all present. At this meeting, the
group will discuss the need for closure for all facing the end
of their lives, and ways that loved ones can help with this
process. Pre-registration is appreciated. This is always a free
community event. The meetings are led by Marggie Hatala,
RN, BSN, Reiki Master. To register or for more information,
visit marggiehatala.com.
• The 47th Men’s Sturgeon Bay High School HalfCentury Reunion is scheduled for Aug. 16 at the Sturgeon
Bay Yacht Club. Social hour begins at 11:30 am with a
family style lunch at 12:30 pm. The cost is $28 and can be
sent to Half Century Club, C/O Dave Hunt, 7521 Eliason Rd,
Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235.

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Tiger, a sevenyear-old domestic
shorthair cat, is this
week’s featured pet
from the Door County
Humane Society
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you can see in the
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He loves having people around and gets lonely without
them. So if you are looking for a sweet boy who just wants
to love and be loved, visit Tiger today.
The Door County Humane Society, located at
3475 County PD in Sturgeon Bay, is open 12 – 6
pm Monday, Wednesday and Friday; and 12 – 4 pm
Saturday. For more information, call 920.746.1111 or visit
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• Malibu Moo’s, located at 4151 Maple St., Fish Creek, is
holding a special MS fundraiser during August. For every
Guernsey Turtle sold in August, Malibu Moo’s will donate
10 percent of the proceeds to go toward MS research and
programs for families living with MS. Two friends from high
school have teamed up to make this event possible. Mary
Graf, owner of Malibu Moo’s, and Pat Heller, MS fundraiser,
met in high school and have been friends for 50 years. This
is the third year they have teamed up to raise funds.

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Boxing is a celebration of the lost
religion of masculinity all the
more trenchant for its being lost.”

SPORTS

JOYCE CAROL OATES

RED PUTTER PRO TOURNEY
RETURNS AUG. 5
It’s tournament time again at The Red
Putter Miniature Golf Course. The 16th
annual tournament and will be the first
without course owner and tournament
director Bob Yttri. He started the
tournament in 2002 when several regular
players were bragging about their low
scores and he said they had to prove it. He
added the stipulation that players first had
to qualify to enter and the Pro Tournament
was born.
The top prize for the Red Putter Pro
Tournament is $2,000. Pros will come
from near and far to compete for the prize
money, trophy and the coveted Red Jacket.
This is the only professional miniature
golf tournament in the area and draws
between 80 and 100 players from around
the country.
Golfers may enter The Red Putter Pro
Tournament for $30, and must pre-qualify
with a score under par on the course.
Registered players practice for free the
week of the tournament.
Sign-in begins at 8 am on Aug. 5, with
tournament play beginning at 9 am. Three
rounds of golf are played, followed by lunch
served by the Mink River Basin.
Visit doorcountypulse.com/
entertainment/door-county-video to view a
tournament review video.

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Caleb Cornell of Sturgeon Bay won
the 35th Annual Kewaunee/Door
Salmon Tournament with a 30.51-pound
fish he caught off Washington Island
July 30, the final day of the nine-day
tournament. Cornell won the $10,000
first prize, taxidermy mounting of the
fish by Northland Taxidermy and a
salmon ring. The next largest salmon
hooked was a 30.35-pounder caught by
Mike Bathke. He earned a $5,000 prize.
Submitted.

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In the seventh week of Mid-States
Football League (MSFL) play, the Door
County Destroyers lost 49-10 to the Racine
Raiders July 29.
The Destroyers play at home Aug. 5
against the Lincoln-Way Patriots. Kick-off is
at 4 pm at the Baileys Harbor Rec Park. The
first round of MSFL playoffs begins Aug. 19.
For more information visit dcdestroyers.
com.

Bays Move Into First
Sister Bay’s Sam Forkert
and Bubba Laughlin outdueled West Jacksonport’s
Riley Cordier as Sister Bay
stepped into first place
in Door County League
Baseball play Sunday. Sister
Bay took the matchup
of top teams 1 – 0.
In other play, Maplewood
routed Kolberg 19 – 3,
Egg Harbor did the same
to Baileys Harbor 16 – 4
in the first game of a
double-header, then
8 – 2 in the nightcap.
On Friday, Washington
Island topped
Institute 9 – 6.
RESULTS
Washington Island
9, Institute 6
West Jacksonport
0, Sister Bay 1
Baileys Harbor 4, Egg
Harbor 16 (Game 1)
Baileys Harbor 2, Egg

newest exhibit, Ceramics Sculpture
Culture, with an opening reception Aug.
4, 5:30 – 8 pm. The show was curated by
Taylor Robenalt and features the Ceramics
Sculpture Culture, a collective of emerging
ceramic sculptors. The exhibit runs
through Aug. 28.
Ceramics Sculpture Culture is a
collective of artists whose intent is
to support and promote the growth
and understanding of contemporary
ceramic sculpture. Ceramics Sculpture
Culture intends to show as a group in
galleries nationwide, creating and hosting
informative workshops in studios and art
centers, writing and publishing articles
in contemporary art publications, and
participating in panel discussions and
symposiums throughout the year. To stay
up-to-date with the group, follow Ceramics
Sculpture Culture on Instagram.
This show coincides with the monthly
Art Walk on historic Steele Street and
the second annual Mobiles in Algoma. In
addition to the opening reception at James
May, there will be an opening reception
for Kit Leffler from 5 – 9 pm at The
Jabberwock, paint your own raku from
5 – 9 pm at Clay on Steele, and an opening
reception for Kimberly Lyon at Steele
Street Trading Co. & Gallery.
James May Gallery is located at 213
Steele St. in Algoma. Summer hours are 1 –
5 pm Sunday, 10 am – 1 pm Monday, 10 am
– 5 pm Thursday through Saturday, and by
appointment.

& Gallery’s Art Show 8: Glass is Aug. 5,
1 – 4 pm. The show features glass artists
Josephine Geiger, Rose Klemen, Sarka
Evans and Kellie Hanson. Geiger will hold
a leaded glass demonstration from 1 to 2
pm and will detail her design and cutting
process. A reception with the artists will
follow from 2-4 pm with a chance to meet
Geiger and Evans.
Geiger’s delightful leaded glass panels
bring clouds, skies, trees and water to life
with brilliant and dynamic colors. Her
contemporary, geometric compositions are
influenced by Frank Lloyd Wright.
Evans’s beautifully framed mosaics are
inspired by the scenes outside her window
and the stunning Lake Michigan landscape.
Klemen’s functional and decorative
fused glass works are inspired by the
natural forces. She uses rich blues, greens
and warm golden browns to create depth
and mystery.
Hanson, a self-taught Michigan artist,
describes creating mosaics as a delightful
glass puzzle. Her work includes playful
colors and textures in a combination of
glass, tiles, mirror, beads, old and new
china, and found objects.
Plum Bottom Pottery & Gallery is open
10 am – 5 pm daily. To visit go 15 minutes
north of Sturgeon Bay or five minutes
south of Egg Harbor on Highway 42 then
east to 4999 Plum Bottom Rd.

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meet-and-greet with featured watercolor
artist Fran Vail Aug. 5, 2 – 4:30 pm.
Vail will demonstrate her watercolor
techniques while painting a landscape and
discuss her uniquely beautiful studies of
bird wings.
Door County is Vail’s home away from
home. She has lived part of almost every
summer in Ephraim and has studied
painting with many Door County artists,
including Phil Austin, Craig Blietz and
Bonnie Paruch. She is a working artist and
watercolor instructor with more than 40
years experience. Her work is inspired by
the beauty and constantly changing moods
of Door County landscapes, flowers and
wildlife. She will be in Ephraim throughout
August and available for private or group
lessons.
2forU Design & Gallery is located in
downtown Fish Creek at 4140 Bluff Lane.
For more information, call 920.854.7770 or
visit 2forUDesign.com.

(4) Patricia Shoppe of Egg Harbor wraps
up their summer trunk show series with
the newest addition to their jewelry
collection, Anna Beck. This Saturday,
Aug. 5 the entire fall collection will be
at the store for pre-orders. This latest
collection is not available in stores until
September but Patricia Shoppe is offering
an early ordering offer of 10 percent off all
purchases of Anna Beck jewelry during
the trunk show.
Anna Beck offers a high quality
collection of handcrafted sterling silver
and 18-karat gold jewelry made by skilled
artisans in Bali.
Erin Bosman, owner of Patricia Shoppe,
said, “Reading Anna Beck’s story behind
her collection reminded me of how it feels
when we sell jewelry to our customer. It
is part of their memories, their vacation,
their Door County experience. I handpick
each piece in my store trying to offer
customers a diverse collection to choose
from that will speak to them in some
special way that will show off their style,
their inner beauty.”

JUNE NIRSCHL HEADLINES
DICKINSON POETRY SERIES

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June Nirschl’s attitude toward life
is reflected in her poetry: Let there be
variety. Trained as an English teacher,
a job she loved for 15 years, she moved
into local government as a municipal
town clerk in southeastern Wisconsin.
Throughout her careers, Nirschl
dabbled in poetry, continuing to find
that around every corner lay something
new, someone new.
Moving to Door County in 2000
enabled Nirschl to continue writing
among a supportive group of poets,
most especially the Wallace Group.
With Judy Roy and Nancy Rafal,
Nirschl’s work was published in their
initial offering, Slightly Off Q, followed
June Nirschl
by Two Off Q: A Conversation in
Poetry with Judy Roy. The Wisconsin
Library Association recognized Two Off
Q for outstanding achievement in poetry in 2009. Her most recent chapbook is a
solo effort, Before & After. Nirschl’s work has appeared in the Peninsula Pulse,
Wisconsin Poets’ Calendar, the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets Museletter, and
Fox Cry Review. Her poetry has been awarded the Jade Ring from the Wisconsin
Writers Association.
On the second Wednesday of every month the Dickinson Poetry Series features a
renowned local or regional poet followed by an open mic, providing an opportunity
for others to read their poetry. A reception follows affording an opportunity
to meet the poets. The public is welcome and there is no charge. The Unitarian
Universalist Fellowship is located at 10341 Hwy. 42 in north Ephraim. For more
information call 920.854.7559.

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(6) Women’s Fine Art Galleries of Egg
Harbor’s annual Progressive Art Crawl
is happening Aug. 10, 4 – 8 pm. Five
Egg Harbor gallery owners and artists
representing Angela Lensch Gallery,
Cappaert Contemporary Gallery, Lost Moth
Gallery, Off the Wheel Pottery and Brilliant
Stranger invite the community to an art
celebration and samples of their favorite
ethnic foods.
These five galleries offer a diversity of art
in all media. The event is free. There will
be a map on the punch card guests can pick
up at their first gallery stop. When all five
galleries are punched, they will be eligible
for a drawing for a gift certificate. Below is
a list of the galleries on the crawl.
Angela Lensch Gallery, 7653 Hwy 42,
920.868.5088: Featuring Lensch’s unique,
hand-woven, gold and silver jewelry as
well as a variety of fine art jewelry, glass,
sculpture and photography by local and
regional artists. Colleen Bins of Chief
Oshkosh will show intricate silver and gold
metalwork and more. Featured food is a
traditional white corn bread native to the

Oneida Nation with a strawberry maple
drink.
Cappaert Gallery, 7901 Hwy 42,
920.868.3987: Cappaert’s current paintings
are focused on the abstracted close-up
images of the sunsets and skies from the
aerial view of planes. She will serve foods
based on Italy; her previous travels there
inspired her colors of some new paintings.
Lost Moth Gallery, 7975 Hwy 42,
920.495.2928: Showing artist Jeanne
Kuhns’ allegorical acrylic paintings
inspired by nature, and a miniature show
of animal paintings. The featured food is
vegetarian sushi and spring rolls and iced
tea.
Off The Wheel Pottery, 4234 Cty
E, 920.868.9608: Showing the work of
resident potter Renee Schwaller and a
special “Pottery Mushroom Show” with a
variety of glazed and painted mushrooms.
Mexican-style food will be served.
Brilliant Stranger – Ecotique, 7821
Hwy 42, 920.366.0301: Showing one-of-akind wearable art garments and accessories
by Dawn Patel, handmade acoustic guitars
by Dale Kumbalek, Guatemalan weavings,
and more. The featured food is pakora and
poppadums with mango chutney and rose
water lemonade.

(7) The Trillium Quilt Guild, of Sister Bay,
is proud to display its members’ works at
The Anderson House at The Corner of the
Past historical site south of Sister Bay Aug.
11 – 12, 10 am – 3 pm.
The exhibit, For the Love of Quilting
II, will feature approximately 30 quilts of
varying styles, from traditional to modern,
and techniques. Each quilt shows its
maker’s creativity, precision and love of the
art of quilting.
The Trillium Quilt Guild has been part
of the Door County art scene for more
than 19 years. Fully participating in
community and charitable initiatives, its
recent projects have included donating
quilts to Sister Bay’s Centennial, the
Neighbor to Neighbor organization, victims
of Hurricane Sandy, the Cancer Center at
Door County Medical Center, the Sister Bay
EMT/Fire Department, and the Quilts of
Valor project.
The Trillium Quilt Guild meets the
second and fourth Thursdays of each
month at the Sister Bay Fire Station, 2258
Mill Road, 10 am – 12 pm. Membership is
open to all levels of quilters for a nominal
membership fee. New members are
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featured artist Mariyana Dimitrova is Aug.
5, 10 am – 5 pm. Dimitrova is an artist that
explores natural fibers in new ways. Turtle
Ridge first became familiar with Dimitrova
through her felted garments and shawls.
A master felting class with Diana Boykova
from Plovdiv, Bulgaria (Dimitrova’s native
country), really sparked Dimitrova’s
creativity. Her garments and shawls are
double-sided, with completely different
designs, textures and colors on each side.
One shawl reminiscent of a starry night is
composed of midnight blue with freshwater
pearl beading, angora and merino wool.
It reverses to a jellyfish pattern in ocean
blue. Her explorations in natural fibers led
to working with silk cocoons that she dyes
with spinach, turmeric and other natural
dyes. Turtle Ridge Gallery/Boutique is
located at 11736 Mink River Road in Ellison

Bay. The boutique is open 10 am – 5 pm
daily.

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The Classic Collection and the Fall 2017
Anna Beck Collection will be available
at Patricia Shoppe Aug. 5, 10 am – 5 pm.
The limited edition of fall features pyrite,
black sapphire, and blue pearls set in
sterling silver and 18-karat gold. For more
information, visit patriciashoppe.com or
call 920.868.1537.

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(1) (Left to right) Contemporary ceramic sculptures by Kensuke Yamada and Rachel Ballard,
part of James May Gallery’s August exhibit, Ceramics Sculpture Culture. (2) (Left to right)
“Wood Duck Drake” and “Wild Turkey” watercolor paintings by Fran Vail. (3) (Top to bottom)
“Koi In the Pond” by Josephine Geiger. Sunflower mosaic by Kellie Hanson. Both are featured
artists of Plum Bottom Pottery & Gallery’s Art Show 8: Glass. (4) Sterling silver jewelry by Anna
Beck, the newest addition to Patricia Shoppe. (5) Turtle Ridge Gallery will showcase the felted
garments, shawls and jewelry of Mariyana Dimitrova. (6) Five Egg Harbor gallery owners and
artists representing Angela Lensch Gallery, Cappaert Contemporary Gallery, Lost Moth Gallery,
Off the Wheel Pottery and Brilliant Stranger present the 3rd Annual Progressive Art Crawl on
Aug. 10. (7) “3-D Explosion” by Laurie Moegenburg. Moegenburg and the rest of the Trillium
Quilt Guild will have their works on display at The Anderson House in Sister Bay Aug. 11-12.

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CHAMBERFOLK
TRIO, GUITAR
CLINIC IN
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PEIL FAMILY HISTORY, WORKING
WARRIORS EXHIBIT IN SISTER BAY
The Door County Historical Society will host its Saturday afternoon yesteryear
programming with “The Peil Family – An Immigrant Door County Family,” presented by Lynn
Mattke Aug. 5 at 2 pm in the Collins Learning Center at 2041 Michigan St. in Sturgeon Bay, at
Crossroads at Big Creek.
The history of the Peil family in Door County began 146 years ago when Karl, Augusta and
five of their children arrived from Germany. The family settled on an 80-acre farm in Baileys
Harbor at the corner of county roads EE and F. When Otto, the oldest son, turned 30, he took
over the farm and sought a wife. Receiving assistance from a friend, a letter was sent back
to Germany to ask if the granddaughter of an old friend was interested in coming to “the
land of opportunity.” After an exchange of photographs, Otto helped arrange Hedwig’s trip
from Germany, and their plans to marry were established. Arriving in Door County, Hedwig
became the “force extraordinaire” of the Peil family and raised 10 children on the family farm.
Mattke is the retired Director of Independent Senior Housing at Scandia Village, and the
granddaughter of Hedwig and Otto Peil. Her mother, Adeline Edmunds, wrote The Loving
Spice of Life, depicting the story of Hedwig’s life. Realizing her rich family history, Mattke is
happy to share her family’s stories.
There is no cost to attend, but an offering will be taken to support Heritage Village at
Big Creek. The Door County Historical Society’s next program in the Yesteryear series is
a German Festival Aug. 12, 10 am – 3 pm, at Heritage Village. For more information, call
920.421.2332 or visit DoorCountyHistoricalSociety.org.
From Aug. 1 – 26, the traveling exhibit Working Warriors: Military Life Beyond Combat
will be on display at Corner of the Past Museum in Sister Bay. The exhibit features
photographs and artwork from the Wisconsin Veterans Museum collection. The exhibit
includes stunning images and brief, thought-provoking prose.
About 75 percent of military work is considered non-combat. These roles rarely make
the headlines, but are vital to every military operation. Exploring the non-combat roles of
military service personnel, including work as beauticians, military police, dentists, mechanics,
and photographers, this exhibit showcases an often overlooked but highly relatable side of
military life.
To enhance the experience, the Wisconsin Veteran Museum traveling trunk for WWII:
European Theater will be at Corner of the Past until Aug. 18. The trunk contains uniforms,
artifacts, multi-media, and activities that illustrate the Wisconsin soldier’s experience. Visitors
can try on the uniforms, handle the artifacts, and interact with the exhibit.
Working Warriors will be on display at Corner of the Past Museum, 10310 Fieldcrest
Road in Sister Bay. Admission is $5 and free for children ages 12 and younger. For more
information, visit sisterbayhistory.org or call 920.854.7680.

Bob Dylan” concert in this year’s Woodwalk
Concert Series is Aug. 4 at 7 pm. This is the
third rendition of the company’s choice of
favorite Bob Dylan songs for the review. This
performance includes nine songs new to the
review as wall as past favorites: “Knockin’ on
Heaven’s Door,” “Lay Lady Lay,” “The Times
They Are A-Changin’,” “Rainy Day Women,” “My
Back Pages” and many more.
The Buckets of Rain company includes: Eric
Lewis, Katie Dahl, Jeanne Kuhns, Chris Irwin,
Rich Higdon and Patrick Palmer.
Call to reserve an outside table for a picnic
dinner at 5:30 pm before the show. Drinks and
treats will be for sale. Woodwalk Gallery is
located at 6746 Cty G, one mile off Highway
42, a bit south of Egg Harbor. Tickets are $20
cash at the door; no credit cards or checks
accepted. For general seating reservations,
call 920.629.4877 or 920.495.2928, or email
jeannekuhns53@gmail.com.
Door County Makers Space will host
Nashville native Mark Stuart for a concert and
guitar clinic.
Mark Stuart (former lead guitar player for
Steve Earle, Joan Baez, Freddy Fender and
Steve Forbert) returns to Door County Makers
Space to play his style of Americana Aug. 5 at
8 pm. He will then lead a guitar clinic Aug. 6 at
3 pm for all levels of guitar players. Prices will
vary depending on the number of attendees
but the cost is expected to be around $25-50.
The clinic lasts three hours and is a great way to
take your playing to the next level.
Contact Elliot Goettelman at 920.333.0323
or dcmakersspace@gmail.com for questions or
to make reservations. For more information visit
doorcountymakersspace.com.

(2) Bluegrass icon Ricky Skaggs and his band

Kentucky Thunder will take the stage at Door
Community Auditorium (DCA) in Fish Creek on
Aug. 6 at 8 pm.
Skaggs was born July 18, 1954 in Cordell,
Kentucky. He struck his first chords on a
mandolin when he was five years old, and
within a year, the child prodigy was sharing
stages with bluegrass legend Bill Monroe. By
age 7, Skaggs had begun appearing on TV with
Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs. He became a

professional bluegrass musician in 1971, when
he and his friend Keith Whitley were invited
to join the legendary Ralph Stanley’s band the
Clinch Mountain Boys. Fifty years later, this
14-time Grammy Award winner continues to
work at the forefront of the current roots music
revival.
In 1982, he became the youngest musician
ever inducted into the Grand Ole Opry. Since
then, he’s had 13 number-one hits, including
“Highway 40 Blues” and “Country Boy,” and
played with luminaries like Flatt and Scruggs,
Ralph Stanley, Emmylou Harris, Bruce Hornsby,
Vince Gill and countless others. Backed by
an ensemble of world-class pickers – the
renowned band Kentucky Thunder – Skaggs
will take over DCA for a blazing evening of
bluegrass music.
Tickets range from $38 to $65. Advance
reservations are recommended and can be
made through the DCA box office, located at
3926 Hwy 42 in Fish Creek. The box office is
open 12 – 5 pm, Monday through Friday. For
tickets, call 920.868.2728, visit dcauditorium.
org, or stop by the box office.

(3) Tonic Sol-fa, a top touring vocal group in
the U.S., will visit the Peg Egan Performing Arts
Center in Egg Harbor Aug. 6.
Although they are simply four voices
and a tambourine, Tonic Sol-fa has spent
considerable time on the road carving their
niche as the nation’s top vocal group. In the
midst of touring, this quartet has been named
one of the top five “must see” groups in
America, has been awarded numerous original
song and album awards in pop, gospel and
holiday genres, appeared on NBC’s Today
Show and in the pages of Newsweek magazine.
Outings with Jay Leno, Shawn Colvin, and
Garrison Keillor have propelled album sales and
have earned the group thousands of intensely
loyal fans.
Tonic Sol-fa has been voted into the Midwest
Music Hall of Fame and averaged more than
150 shows annually in 48 states. The quartet
has also won their first Emmy Award in the
“Musical Composition/Arrangement” category
for a song performed in a Toys for Tots public
service announcement.
The Peg Egan Center is located on Church
Street in Egg Harbor, and all concerts are free
and open to the public. In case of rain, concerts
are held at the Calvary Methodist Church, 4650
Cty E, Egg Harbor. For more information call
920.493.5979.

(4) Fresh from touring in Spain and singing in

castles by the sea, Dayna Kurtz comes to Lost
Moth Gallery Aug. 9 with her spellbinding songs
and mesmerizing voice.

Over the past decade, Kurtz has been
bestowed with many awards and praises,
including being named the Female Songwriter
of the Year by the National Academy of
Songwriters. Norah Jones and Bonnie Raitt
have raved about her in interviews, and she’s
performed on such high-profile radio shows as
World Cafe, Mountain Stage, Morning Edition
and Tell Me More. She’s toured and opened for
the likes of Elvis Costello, Richard Thompson,
Mavis Staples, Rufus Wainwright, B.B. King,
Richie Havens and more.
Dayna’s new disc, Here, Vol. 1, released
this year, is a live record with career-spanning
tracks, culled from her 2016 Dutch theater
tour with guitarist Robert Mache. It manages to
capture the heart-stopping, edge-of-your-seat
mesmerized silence that Kurtz draws from her
audiences.

for good in the universe. The songs, crafted
lyrically by Jordana Greenberg and arranged by
all three members of the trio – Maria Di Meglio,
Michelle Younger and Greenberg – do not
intend to distract from the social and political
atmosphere. They are the vehicle by which
the band has chosen to add their voices to the
ongoing fight for understanding and respect.
Woodwalk Gallery features contemporary
art and musical performances in an intimate,
historic barn setting. The concert begins at 7
pm, and admission is $20. Woodwalk Gallery
is located at 6746 Cty G, Egg Harbor. For
more information visit woodwalkgallery.com/
concerts.

“The Heart of Robin Hood”
Bjorklunden, 7590
Boynton Ln, Baileys
Harbor. 920.839.1500.
5pm. David Farr’s funny,
adventurous tale will
surprise you with a new
spin on a story you
think you know. A Door
Shakespeare production.

Describing their style of music as
“chamberfolk,” Harpeth Rising is a trio of violin,
cello and banjo. Three classically trained
musicians make up the band and they play
original music, as intricately arranged as a string
quartet, lyrically rooted in the singer/songwriter
tradition, and wrapped in three-part vocal
harmonies reminiscent of both Appalachia
and Medieval Europe. Hallmarks of their music
include expansive three-part harmonies,
consummate musicianship and a deft, yet
soulful, lyrical perspective.
Against All Tides, Harpeth Rising’s
sophomore album as a trio, is proof that
authenticity and complexity can live in
harmony. It is an exploration of spirituality
in place of fundamentalism, uncertainty as
philosophy, and an unwavering declaration
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Bay. 920.854.2500.
10am. Look for monarchs in
their beginning stages, from
eggs to larvae (caterpillars),
and collect them so they
can be protected through
their metamorphosis and
released. Come see the active
monarch nursery. Meet at
the Nature Center. Free. Park
vehicle sticker required.
Blacksmith Demonstration
Heritage Village at Big
Creek, 2041 Michigan St,
Sturgeon Bay. 920.421.2332.
11am-2pm. Watch local
blacksmiths use historic
techniques to create pieces
made of iron and steel. Some
pieces, including custom
orders, are available for sale.

Kurtz comes to Lost Moth Gallery with
Mache. She said of him, “I’ve loved Robert’s
playing for such a long time, and we’ve been
friends longer than we’ve been touring partners
– he was one of the first musicians to befriend
me in New Orleans.”
Lost Moth is a lovely, cozy concert venue
seating only 25. Coffee, tea and cookies will
be provided. Doors open at 6 pm and the
shows starts at 7 pm with the Small Forest
Girls. Tickets are $20 cash at the door. Lost
Moth Gallery is located at 7975 Hwy 42 in Egg
Harbor. Call 920.495.2928 for reservations.

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OUTDOOR
MARITIME WEEK
IN STURGEON
BAY, HIKING
TOURS AT THE
CLEARING
(1) The City of Sturgeon Bay will once again
honor its rich maritime heritage with a diverse
collection of entertaining and fun-filled events
Aug. 5 – 13. Officially titled “Sturgeon Bay
Maritime Week: A Salute to the U.S. Coast
Guard,” the celebration includes many longstanding annual waterfront events along with
a growing list of new activities. In addition
to focusing on Sturgeon Bay’s extraordinary
maritime history, the week honors the area’s
local Coast Guard personnel, past and present,
for their service and many contributions to the
community.
Maritime Week gets underway Aug. 5, 11
am, with a picnic for all active, reserve, retired
and veteran Coast Guard personnel and their
families.
Aug. 6 brings a new event to the Maritime
Week calendar. Adopt-a-Soldier Door County
and the Sturgeon Bay Fire Department will host
an “all you can eat” breakfast at the firehouse
adjacent to City Hall from 7 – 11 am. Following
breakfast, there will be a BBQ and benefit
concert at Martin Park and the bands Last
Man Standing and Copper Box will entertain
throughout the afternoon.
The Harmony by the Bay Summer Concert
Series continues Aug. 9 at Martin Park. The

ever-popular Big Mouth and the Power Tool
Horns will entertain. The concert begins at 7 pm
and will open with a salute to veterans from all
branches of the armed forces.
The Salute to the Coast Guard Golf Outing
is Aug. 10. This public golf event celebrates
the Coast Guard’s birthday with a fun fourperson scramble format at Idlewild Golf Course.
Contact the Door County Maritime Museum
(DCMM) for an entry form and additional details.
Thursday’s activities also include the “TGIT”
Sail Racing at the Sturgeon Bay Yacht Club that
evening. Contact the Sturgeon Bay Yacht Club
(920.743.6934) for details.
Maritime Week returns to Martin Park on Aug.
11 with an outdoor screening of Harry Potter
and the Sorcerer’s Stone at dusk.
Aug. 12 & 13 is packed with maritime activities
on Sturgeon Bay’s working waterfront. Aug. 12
opens with the first day of the Door County
Classic and Wooden Boat Festival on the DCMM
grounds. The many activities at the Classic and
Wooden Boat Festival blend with the Maritime
on Madison celebration. There will be music,
store sales and kids’ activities to keep everyone
entertained as they stroll Sturgeon Bay’s
historic West Side. On the DCMM grounds,
dozens of classic boats will be on display.
The construction and the decoration phase
in the ever-popular Sikaflex Boat Building
competition begins Saturday morning. Watch
as two-person teams working feverishly with
limited lumber and materials to craft a oneof-a-kind boat that will float, hopefully. The
grounds open at 9 am.
At the conclusion of Saturday’s activities,
head for the Sturgeon Bay Yacht Club for their
annual Evening on the Bay events Saturday
evening, including live music, boat parade and
fireworks. All events are open to the public.

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A youngster enjoys the Door
County Classic and Wooden Boat
Festival. Photo by Steve Reinke.
Maritime Week wraps up Aug. 13 with the
second day of the Door County Classic and
Wooden Boat Festival. The “sea trials” of the
often less-than-seaworthy Sikaflex Challenge
vessels is always the highlight of day two.
Sturgeon Bay’s designation as an official
Coast Guard City in 2014 makes the celebration
even more special. Sturgeon Bay is one of only
20 communities nationwide to be named a
Coast Guard City and is the first, and only, in
Wisconsin.

(2) The 82-year history, folklore and

landscape of The Clearing Folk School are the
subject of continuing free, interpretive hikes
to the historic campus and buildings, led by
volunteer docents on select Saturdays and
Sundays through Oct. 29. The two-hour hiking
tours begin at 1 pm at the Jens Jensen Visitor
Center, 12171 Garrett Bay Road, Ellison Bay. No
pre-registration is necessary. The terrain is a bit
rugged in places, and sturdy walking shoes are
highly recommended.

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HAPPENINGS
$29/adult. $19/student.
$9/children under 12.
“Candide”
Third Avenue Playhouse,
239 N 3rd Ave, Sturgeon
Bay. 920.743.1760.
7:30pm. A witty and wacky
satire of an operetta, Candide
takes the audience on a
round-the-world romp
of idealistic optimism as
it clashes with a series
of absurdly unfortunate
events. $28/general
admission. $12/students.
$7/child (12 & under).
“The Bridges of
Madison County”
Peninsula Players, 4351
Peninsula Players Rd, Fish
Creek. 920.868.3287.
8pm. A ravishingly beautiful
musical based on the
novel by Robert James
Waller. $39-$44/tickets.
“Victory Farm”
Northern Sky Theater,
Peninsula State Park
Amphitheater, 10169 Shore
Rd, Fish Creek. 920.854.6117.
8pm. Written with humor and
tenderness, “Victory Farm”
is an uplifting tale of family,
forgiveness, and the fruits
of our labor set on a Door
County cherry orchard during
World War II. Vehicle sticker
not required. $22/Adults. $11/
Students. $6/Children 12
years old and under. $7/extra
charge for reserved seats.

Forward Wisconsin!
Peninsula State Park,
9462 Shore Rd, Fish
Creek. 920.868.3258.
11am-12:30pm. Plan on
30 minutes to experience
the following activities:
UnNature Trail, Wisconsin
Style. Walk a short trail,
counting the number of
items that don’t belong in
nature. Tell your answer to
the naturalist for a “ticket”
to toast a pudgy pie pizza
(while supplies last) over
a campfire. Learn how to
be safe around campfires.
Stop by the Nature Center
any time. Free. Park
vehicle sticker required.

LEGO Kids’ Club
Sturgeon Bay Library,
107 S 4th Ave, Sturgeon
Bay. 920.743.6578.
1-2pm. Kids (K-4th grade)
are welcome to build unique
creations with thousands
of Legos. Many of the
creations will be on display
all month in the children’s
area of the library. Free.
Yesteryear Program
Crossroads at Big Creek,
2041 Michigan St, Sturgeon
Bay. 920.421.2332.
2pm. “Peil Family History,”
presented by Lynn Mattke.
Held in the Collins Learning
Center. Freewill donation.

LITERATURE

Storytime with Olive
Fish Creek Bookshop
& Gallery, 9331 Spring
Road - Top of the Hill Shops,
Fish Creek. 920.559.9091.
10:30am & 11:30am.
Parents and caregivers are
welcome to bring their
children ages 5-12 years
old for storytime. Free.

campus area of the property is closed to visitors
Monday through Friday for the privacy of
students.
For more information, call 920.854.4088
between 8 am and 4 pm, Monday through
Friday, stop at the Jens Jensen Visitor Center or
visit theclearing.org.

(3) The Door County Sports & Classic Car
show returns for the sixth year, Aug. 12 in
the Village of Egg Harbor. Come explore all
the village has to offer while taking in sleek
sports cars, stunning classic cars and their new

modified category. The Door County Sports &
Classics Car Show runs from 10 am to 3 pm.
Sponsored by the Egg Harbor Business
Association, the Door County Sports & Classics
Car Show partners with United Way of Door
County to solicit votes with winners to be
selected in six categories: Owner’s Choice
Sports Car, Owner’s Choice Classic Car,
Owner’s Choice Modified Car, Fan Favorite
Sports Car, Fan Favorite Classic Car and Fan
Favorite Modified Car.
Cars will be on display in Harbor View Park
and at the Nicolet Bank parking lot. Cars may

also be parked at Lena’s parking lot on the
south end of town across from the Liberty
Square Shops.
Registration is $15 the day of the event.
Register from 8 – 9:45 am at Lena’s parking lot.
The first 150 entrants will receive a dash plaque
and swag bag. Raffles will be held throughout
the day for entrants.
There will be a DJ playing music all day at
each parking area. For more information, call
920.868.3717 or visit EggHarborDoorCounty.
org.

“The Bridges of
Madison County”
Peninsula Players, 4351
Peninsula Players Rd, Fish
Creek. 920.868.3287.
8pm. A ravishingly beautiful
musical based on the
novel by Robert James
Waller. $39-$44/tickets.
“The Heart of Robin Hood”
Bjorklunden, 7590
Boynton Ln, Baileys
Harbor. 920.839.1500.
8pm. David Farr’s funny,
adventurous tale will
surprise you with a new
spin on a story you
think you know. A Door
Shakespeare production.
$29/adult. $19/student.
$9/children under 12.
“Victory Farm”
Northern Sky Theater,
Peninsula State Park
Amphitheater, 10169 Shore
Rd, Fish Creek. 920.854.6117.
8pm. Written with humor and
tenderness, “Victory Farm”
is an uplifting tale of family,
forgiveness, and the fruits
of our labor set on a Door
County cherry orchard during
World War II. Vehicle sticker
not required. $22/Adults.
$11/Students. $6/Children 12
years old and under. $7/extra
charge for reserved seats.

Together Tuesdays
Door County YMCA –
Sturgeon Bay Program
Center, 1900 Michigan St,
Sturgeon Bay. 920.743.4949.
9:30-10:30am. A light
breakfast served in the
social lounge. Free to all.
Together Tuesdays
Door County YMCA –
Northern Door Program
Center, 3866 Gibraltar Rd,
Fish Creek. 920.868.3660.
9:30-10:30am. A light
breakfast served in the
social lounge. Free to all.

(1) Peninsula Players Theatre, in conjunction
with its production of the Tony Award-winning
musical The Bridges of Madison County by
Jason Robert Brown and Marsha Norman, will
host a pre-show seminar Aug. 10, 6:30 pm, at
the theater.
The Bridges of Madison County first captured
the nation’s attention in 1992 when Robert
James Waller’s novel became a bestseller, then
again in 1995 as a major motion picture starring
Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep. The film was
shot on location in Madison County, Iowa and
six covered bridges were featured. Nowhere
else in the Midwest can so many covered
bridges be found so closely grouped together,
thus Madison County and the bridges have
become a tourist destination.
Waller, while on leave from work, was taking
a pleasure trip to photograph the famous
bridges within an 11-mile radius of Winterset,
Iowa. The bridges were built with covers to
protect the roadway because it was cheaper to
replace the boards of the roof and walls rather
than replace the heavy beams of the actual
bridge. The Covered Bridge Festival celebrates
the bridges each fall as well as the birthplace of
John Wayne. Waller’s trip was an inspiration to
him and within three weeks he had finished the
novel.
Peninsula Players will host a discussion
with Jon Jarosh, Door County Visitor Bureau
director of communications and public
relations, as he talks about the impact of books,
films and articles on destinations from a tourism
standpoint.
The Bridges of Madison County performs
Tuesdays through Saturdays at 8 pm and
Sundays at 7:30 pm with a 4 pm matinee Aug.
13. Discount tickets are available for groups
of 15 or more. Individual ticket prices range
from $41 to $47. For more information or

(1) (Above) Jon Jarosh, Door County Visitor Bureau’s director of communications and public
relations. (Center) Katherine Duffy performs in The Bridges of Madison County. Also pictured
in the background are Rengin Altay, fiddler Lynn Gudmundsen and Elizabeth Haley. Photo
by Len Villano. (Right) Steve Koehler and Cory Goodrich in Peninsula Players’ production
of The Bridges of Madison County on stage through Aug. 13. Photo by Len Villano.

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(2) Lola DeVillers and Rachel Siezer in Rogue Theater’s newest
production. (3) Jim Stombres during his last concert as band director at
St. Charles North in spring of 2015. Photo by Mary Beth Nolan.
to reserve tickets, call 920.868.3287 or visit
peninsulaplayers.com.

(2) August brings heat and laughter to the

Rogue Theater stage with A Coupla White
Chicks Sitting Around Talking, by John Ford
Noonan. This was Rogue Theater’s debut show
in November of 2013. That show starred Lola
DeVillers and Katie Lott, and was directed by Bill
Bauernfeind.
The show takes place in suburban
Westchester County, New York, in the kitchen
of Maude Mix, who is having a tough day: her
husband is off on a weekend spree with his
secretary and she can’t get rid of the pesky

neighbor who has just moved up from Texas.
Mix is a stereotypically uptight housewife
living on Charlemagne Lane somewhere in
Westchester County. She enjoys things neat and
tidy, and is extremely protective of her privacy.
But into her life bursts her new neighbor,
Hannah Mae, a loud, high-spirited woman from
Texas. Hannah Mae badgers Mix into friendship
and the two eventually join forces against their
errant and erring husbands.
Lola DeVillers stars as Maude Mix and Rachel
Seizer as the pesky Hannah Mae Bindler. The
show is directed by Stuart Champeau. DeVillers
is a teacher, actor and director. She holds a
master’s degree in education and has been an
educator in Sturgeon Bay for more than 25

years. She manages and is co-artistic director
of Rogue Theater with her husband, Stuart
Champeau. Seizer, a 2016 Sturgeon Bay High
School graduate, now studies at Madison
College. She was most recently seen in the
all-female production of Love’s Labour’s Lost.
She plans to continue her studies and pursue a
degree in theatre at Edgewood College.
The show runs Aug. 10-13 and 17-20,
at 7:30 pm Thursday, Friday and Saturday,
and 2 pm Sunday. Rogue Theater is located
at 340 Jaycee Court in Sturgeon Bay. The
show includes adult content. Tickets are $15
for adults and $10 for students. For more
information, call 920.818.0816 or find Rogue
Theater on Facebook.

(3) As the saying goes, age is just a number,
and this is especially true in regard to music.
The Adult Concert Band Camp, held Aug. 19 –
22, at Birch Creek Music Performance Center
is a unique opportunity for those who wish to
grow in their musicality, or just want to spend a
fun weekend in Door County.
The camp is co-directed by three wellrespected and award-winning musicians: Chip
Staley (Naperville, Ill.), Steve Sveum (Sun Prairie),
and Jim Stombres (St. Charles, Ill.). Stombres
said of the camp, “It’s something that’s meant to
be enjoyable…dig the horn out and play a little
bit and come up and have the experience and
share your love of music with other people that
feel the same way as you.”
Stombres has been a high school band
director for 37 years in three suburban Chicago
high schools, finishing his career at St. Charles
North High School. He has spent 29 summers
at Birch Creek on faculty for the Big Band Jazz
sessions.
For the first time on Birch Creek’s campus,
adults in the community will get the
opportunity to perform onstage in the centuryold Dutton Concert Barn. “That’s the vision of
this, you come up and learn, and interact in
an environment that’s pretty unique, giving a
concert in a barn and being able to experience
the county,” said Stombres.
The combined knowledge and musicianship
of Staley, Sveum and Stombres in addition to
playing alongside fellow musicians will be an
experience of a lifetime. For more information
about the adult band camp visit birchcreek.org.

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HAPPENINGS
Activities at the Library
Sturgeon Bay Library,
107 S 4th Ave, Sturgeon
Bay. 920.743.6578.
1:30pm. Matinee Movie.
“Beauty and the Beast.” (2017
PG 2:09 Family/Fantasy/
Musical).
6-7:30pm. End of Life
Doulagivers Presentation.
Discussing the need for
closure for all facing the end
of their lives, and ways that
loved ones can help with this
process. All present are invited
to share with others while
exploring this new concept
supporting the dying and their
caregivers. For reservations
and more information, visit
marggiehatala.com This
is a free, donation based
community event.

2:30pm. “The Beautiful
Mystery” by Louise Penny
will be discussed in the
Community Room. Listeners
and participants welcome.
Light refreshments served.
For a full book list call or
visit doorcountylibrary.org.

OUTDOOR

Jacksonport Farmers Market
Lakeside Park, Hwy 57,
Jacksonport. 920.823.2288.
9am-1pm. Do your shopping
locally with a wide variety
of local farm products
and hand crafts on the
lake in Jacksonport.
Blacksmith Demonstration
Heritage Village at Big
Creek, 2041 Michigan St,
Sturgeon Bay. 920.421.2332.
11am-2pm. Watch local
blacksmiths use historic
techniques to create pieces
made of iron and steel. Some
pieces, including custom
orders, are available for sale.
Garden Door Presentation
Peninsular Agricultural
Research Station, 4312
Hwy 42, Sturgeon Bay.
920.743.5406.
7pm. Join the Door County
Master Gardeners as they
invite guest speakers to
present on different topics
and utilize the garden for
demonstration purposes.
Bring your own chair, limited
seating. Dress for the weather.
Free and open to the public.

WED
8/9
LIVE MUSIC

Matt Endres Band
Hof Restaurant at the Alpine
Resort, 7715 Alpine Rd, Egg
Harbor. 920.868.3000.
6:30-7:45pm. Live music in
Hof Restaurant. Free.
8:45pm. Live music in
the Yodel Inn. Free.

Blacksmith Demonstration
Heritage Village at Big
Creek, 2041 Michigan St,
Sturgeon Bay. 920.421.2332.
11am-2pm. Watch local
blacksmiths use historic
techniques to create
pieces made of iron
and steel. Some pieces,
including custom orders,
are available for sale.
A Walk by the Springs
Three Springs Nature
Preserve, 10442 Three
Springs Road, Sister
Bay. 920.746.1359.
3-5pm. Walk through the
swampy forests and coastal
marshes of Three Springs
preserve. Approximately a
1 mile walk over fairly level
terrain. All kids attending
will receive a free nature
journal and outdoor activity
kit at the end of the walk.
No registration necessary.
Free and open to the public.

FRI
8/11
FESTIVALS

Shanty Days Celebration
of the Lake
Throughout Algoma.
920.487.2041.
Featuring a parade, car cruise
and show, 150+ arts and
crafts & street fair vendors, 5k
walk/run as part of the Bellin
Title Town Series, food, beach
volleyball tourney, fireworks,
kid’s area, fishing contest,
book sale and entertainment
for the entire family. Live
music all weekend/8 bands.
Visit algomachamber.org for
full schedule or to register for
the parade or be a vendor.

“The Bridges of
Madison County”
Peninsula Players, 4351
Peninsula Players Rd, Fish
Creek. 920.868.3287.
6:30pm. Pre-show seminar.
Jon Jarosh, Director of
Communications & Public
Relations, discusses the
impact of books, films and
articles on destinations from a
tourism standpoint.
8pm. Show. A ravishingly
beautiful musical based on
the novel by Robert James
Waller. $39-$44/tickets.
“Doctor! Doctor!”
Northern Sky Theater,
Peninsula State Park
Amphitheater, 10169 Shore
Rd, Fish Creek. 920.854.6117.
6pm. A retiring small town
physician recruits his young
big city nephew to take over
his practice. A charming
tribute to the nostalgic

nature of innocent, smalltown life in Door County,
where residents reluctantly
but humorously adapt to
change. Vehicle sticker not
required. $22/Adults. $11/
Students. $6/Children 12
years old and under. $7/extra
charge for reserved seats.
“Candide”
Third Avenue Playhouse,
239 N 3rd Ave, Sturgeon
Bay. 920.743.1760.
7:30pm. A witty and wacky
satire of an operetta, Candide
takes the audience on a
round-the-world romp
of idealistic optimism as
it clashes with a series
of absurdly unfortunate
events. $28/general
admission. $12/students.
$7/child (12 & under).
“A Coupla White Chicks
Sitting Around Talking”
Sturgeon Bay Jaycee Hall,
340 Jaycee Ct, Sturgeon
Bay. 920.818.0816.
7:30pm. Maude Mix is having
a tough day when her
loud and high spirited new
neighbor, Hannah Mae, bursts
into her life. Hannah Mae
badgers Maude into friendship
and the two eventually join
forces against their errant
and erring husbands. Show
includes adult content. $15/
adults. $10/students.
“The Heart of Robin Hood”
Bjorklunden, 7590
Boynton Ln, Baileys
Harbor. 920.839.1500.
8pm. David Farr’s funny,
adventurous tale will surprise
you with a new spin on a story
you think you know. A Door
Shakespeare production.
$29/adult. $19/student.
$9/children under 12.
“Lumberjacks in Love”
Northern Sky Theater,
Peninsula State Park
Amphitheater, 10169 Shore
Rd, Fish Creek. 920.854.6117.
8:30pm. Four burly
lumberjacks live in a state of
manly bliss at the Haywire
Lumber Camp in Northern
Wisconsin – until an
encounter with a plucky mail
order bride interrupts life as
they know it. The result is big
belly laughs and beautiful
music. Vehicle sticker not
required. $22/Adults. $11/
Students. $6/Children 12
years old and under. $7/extra
charge for reserved seats.

SERVING OUR COMMUNITY SINCE 1996

HAPPENINGS

SERVING OUR COMMUNITY SINCE 199

PERSPECTIVES
By the Numbers
Wisconsin Drinking Water
Last week the Wisconsin
Department of Natural
Resources released the
Wisconsin Public Water
Systems 2016 Annual Drinking
Water Report. Here are some
facts from the report. The
full report is available on the
DNR website, dnr.wi.gov;
search “drinking water.”

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56
The number of public water
systems in the state that obtain
their water from surface water
rather than underground
sources. The surface water
systems serve some of the
largest populations, including
Milwaukee and Green Bay.

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76
The number of public water systems in the state
that experienced contamination violations –
bacteria, nitrate, arsenic and radionuclides were
the most common contaminants found.

99
The percentage of public water systems in the
state that met the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency’s Maximum Contaminant Level standards.

443
The number of water systems owned by entities other
than municipalities, which could include mobile home
parks, apartment buildings and long-term care facilities.

611
The number of municipally owned systems in the
state. They serve 80 percent of the population.

891
The number of non-transient, non-community water
systems. These include schools, office buildings,
industrial facilities, dairies and other businesses.

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1972
The year federal standards were enacted
for public water systems.

2,600
The number of inspections of public water systems by
DNR staff and its partners to ensure compliance with
construction, operation and maintenance requirements.

9,463

Development At What Cost?
After riding my bike from the
corner of Lampert west on Highway
42/57, over rumble strips located on
the edge of the road, I discovered
Grant Ave. I traveled north to find
the site that was chosen by the

developers for a 56-unit apartment
complex, and was approved by the
Plan Commission on June 21, 2017.
To my dismay, I found no road
exiting the development site. I
explained during public comment
at the July 5, 2017, common council
meeting, during my three-minute
timeframe, that the proposed
planned unit development was
an isolated development due to
the fact that there was no exit,
except the highway entrance. I also
explained that it was benefiting not
the Sturgeon Bay School District,
but neighboring Southern Door.
Finally, I urged the council not to
make the same mistake in creating
a development such as on the north
side of Egg Harbor Road that they
have not fixed in 15-plus years.
Fast-forward to the July 18, 2017,
council meeting, it was brought
to the city’s attention, through a
Memorandum Agreement between
the City of Sturgeon Bay and
Wisconsin DOT (permit dated Oct.
15, 2009).
We currently have 40 units,
and are allowing 56 more plus 14
townhouses (totaling 110 units).
It was stated the tipping point
which required a traffic study for
the development was 100 units, by
Community Development Director,
Marty Olejniczak.
Mayor Birmingham stated the
city will only benefit by $23,000 of
taxes a year from the development
of the 56 units. What will it cost the
city to develop a 1/3-mile of road,
which could include such barriers
as condemning and the possible use
of eminent domain?
People first. Honor your
agreements.
Paul Anschutz
Sturgeon Bay, Wis.

The number of transient non-community water
systems. They include motels, campgrounds,
parks, restaurants, taverns and churches.

11,408
The number of public water systems in Wisconsin,
more than any other state in the nation.

HELLERTOON

650,000
The number of people served by the
state’s largest municipally owned system,
which is Milwaukee Waterworks.

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$14.5 million
The amount the DNR awarded to 38 communities,
including $300,000 to Sturgeon Bay Utilities,
to replace some of the 170,000 lead service
lines in water supply systems statewide.

$24 million
The amount the DNR provided in financial assistance
through the Safe Drinking Water Loan Program, which
helped 14 communities make needed infrastructure
improvements to their drinking water systems.

$1.5 billion
Estimated infrastructure costs between now
and 2031 for small community water systems
serving fewer than 3,300 people.

$7.1 billion
Total cost for water infrastructure
needs in Wisconsin by 2031.

$384 billion
The cost of water infrastructure needs
by 2031 across the nation.
Source: Wisconsin Public Water Systems
2016 Annual Drinking Water Report
– compiled by Jim Lundstrom

If you can’t stop thinking about it... buy it!
HIGHWAY 42 ACROSS FROM THE AUDITORIUM, FISH CREEK

Where’s the Common Sense?
I am sure I’m not the only one
frustrated about the battle over
the proposed downtown westside
Sturgeon Bay waterfront hotel
complex!
The issue is whether or not the
government owns and can sell a
strip of land between an 1835 highwater survey line and the actual
waterfront.
The sparring parties were told to
“negotiate” a compromise line.
Geez. A high-water line is not a
matter of negotiation, it’s a matter
of survey by competent authority.
Secondly, since 1835, the highwater line has been altered by fill in
Sturgeon Bay, and probably every
other city of any size on the Great
Lakes. In Sturgeon Bay, does the
government really own Utopia Circle
and the SB Yacht Club – both built on
fill? The entire downtown waterfront,
using the 1835 line, is probably
government owned, too. No?
A 2017 high-water survey would
reflect reality. I’m thinking the line
would probably be at the exact edge
of our current shore, as we are pretty
much at an all-time high right now.
Let’s not forget, a high-water line
marks the boundary of navigable
water. Let’s face it, the Door County
Maritime Museum is not in navigable
water.
Sturgeon Bay did a fine job
concerning the Stone Harbor hotel
complex and grounds, which includes
a beautiful public boardwalk, public
restrooms, and public water access.
The obstructionism concerning
this similar project, based on the
never-before-cited-nor-enforced
1835 high-water argument, is nuts.
Whatever happened to common
sense?
Tom Felhofer
Union, Wis.

JOHN SCALZI

Politics Matter
Given the unpopularity of
President Trump (the last ABC poll
showed his approval rating at 36
percent) and the highly partisan
atmosphere in the U.S. Senate
and House, we Americans can feel
powerless and just throw up our
hands and switch it all off. However,
I think “politics” still matters. What
happens in Washington determines
the fabric of our lives: our jobs,
our incomes, our health care, our
environment, our education, the
roads we drive on, and the list goes
on.
I’ve always believed our democracy
works because we live in a country
that values, respects, and supports
all Americans, regardless of age,
religion, race, wealth or sexual
orientation. I don’t think President
Trump should be speaking at rallies
that are only his supporters. He is the
President of all Americans. A small
reminder: he lost the popular vote by
three million votes. And I don’t think
our legislators should be looking to
enact their agenda without talking
to their constituents in face-to-face
meetings or at public town halls. And
I certainly don’t think legislation
should be crafted in secret as the
Republican health care bill has been.
At the time of writing this letter, we
still don’t know the details and cost
of the latest Republican plan.
Politics depends on us, on who
votes and who speaks up. This
seems especially important as our
democracy is challenged every day
by a President who doesn’t seem
to understand how our democracy
works: we have three equal branches
that work separately as checks and
balances to each other. I feel that
President Trump’s inability, or
lack of desire to work with, or lack
of respect for the other branches
of government is undermining
our democracy. The president
is not above the other branches

Thanks So Much
Thanks to every individual who
donates food and clothing to
Feed & Clothe My People.Your
help is valuable to so many.

of government. All the branches
are equal. To me, this lack of
respect and understanding of our
democracy is very worrisome.
Our elected officials work for
us. We have to keep letting them
know how we feel and keep them
accountable. Senators Baldwin,
Johnson, and Congressman
Gallagher need to hear from us,
their constituents and citizens.
Letters, phone calls, faxes, emails
do get recorded and counted. The
2018 midterm elections are coming
up. Let’s keep our democracy
alive and well by being active and
involved.
Glenna Peters
Sister Bay, Wis.

If you want me to treat your
ideas with more respect,
get some better ideas.”

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FLOORING

The King of Rhetoric
For the last six months the
American people have been
subjected to one media spectacle
after another by our President.
He has managed to not release his
taxes or relinquish his business
ties. He surrounds himself with
family members in government
when he stated they were going
to run the Trump businesses. No
one is immune from his threats.
He harasses his own choices in
government if they don’t agree with
him. He speaks highly of Putin and
denies Russian ties and makes fun
of other world leaders, while we
are subject to a continued flow of
Twitter attacks. I have to say, the
embarrassing speech/rant he made
at the Boy Scout Jamboree is one of
the most inappropriate, bombastic
and rhetoric filled to date. As I
have read, listened and watched the
happenings of the last six months, I
have to conclude that an innocent,
respectful, intelligent person does
not act like this.
Carol Schmidt
Baileys Harbor, Wis.

“MaryKay was our Buyer Agent, and we honestly doubt
there could be anyone else that knows Door County the way
she does! Great energy and a true professional to the end.”
-Claudia and Roman A., Illinois and Europe Lake, WI

“The Great Lakes in a
Time of Hyper Change”
7:00 pm, Friday, Aug.11
at the Town Hall in Baileys Harbor

This free
program is
presented by

Cameron
Davis,
the Obama
Administration’s
chief liaison
to Congress
in Great Lakes
matters.

920-743-6003
www.dcec-wi.org

Photo: Dan Eggert

DOOR COUNTY LAND TRUST SURPASSES 8,000 ACRES PROTECTED
The Door County Land Trust announces they have now surpassed 8,000 acres protected from development
through the addition of 106 acres to the Chambers Island Nature Preserve. Door County Land Trust Executive
Director Tom Clay said, “We are pleased that with this most recent acquisition we are surpassing two milestones –
8,000 acres are now protected by the land trust, and at 593 acres, Chambers Island has become our largest nature
preserve. Chambers Island is an important piece in the picture of Door County’s conservation.”
Chambers Island provides vital stopover habitat for migratory birds. The island is dominated by hardwood
and cedar forests with contiguous canopy, an inland lake called Mackaysee, and wetlands including a leather-leaf
muskeg (bog), the only one of its kind in Door County. Protecting Chambers Island was recognized as a priority
during joint conservation planning sessions with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, The Nature
Conservancy and others.
The 8,000 acres protected by the Door County Land Trust are the result of several land protection methods that
create corridors of conserved lands benefitting native plant and wildlife species. The Land Trust owns and manages
15 nature preserves and 24 natural areas, which comprise about 4,100 acres protected. Additionally, 3,200 acres
are permanently protected through conservation easement agreements with private landowners. An additional 700
acres have been protected and transferred to other organizations for ongoing care.
“There is urgency to our work in Door County. Protecting our thriving plant, fish and bird habitats now creates
a refuge in an otherwise rapidly changing world,” said Door County Land Trust Director of Land Program Terrie
Cooper. “The Land Trust is poised to protect the most vulnerable places on the peninsula, like the interior of
Chambers Island which is so important to the birds migrating over the bay each year – more than 169 species
identified so far.”
For more information and to become a land trust member, call 920.746.1359 or visit doorcountylandtrust.org.

CAMERON DAVIS ON
THE HYPER CHANGE
OF THE GREAT LAKES
The Door County
Environmental
Council welcomes
Cameron Davis, a
natural resource and
water quality expert,
who will present
Cameron Davis “The Great Lakes
in a Time of Hyper
Change” Aug. 11, 7 pm, at the Baileys
Harbor Town Hall.
For more than three decades, Davis
has worked to develop and implement
water quality
and quantity
policy. Appointed
by the Obama
Administration,
Davis was senior
adviser to two U.S.
Environmental
Protection Agency
Administrators
in Washington, D.C. Under the
Great Lakes Restoration Initiative
(GLRI), he coordinated 11 federal
departments to manage $2.2 billion
in funding to state, municipal, tribal,
business and civic stakeholders, and
the nonprofit community. It was
the largest Great Lakes restoration
investment in U.S. history. Funding
financed contaminated sediment
cleanups, fish contaminant matters,
dam removals, wetland and habitat
restoration, runoff reduction,
invasive species prevention, and
other related water resource matters.
Davis also served as a lead negotiator
with the U.S. State Department in
its development of the 2012 U.S.Canada Great Lakes Water Quality
Agreement.

DCEC

Davis was also president and
CEO of the Alliance for the Great
Lakes, Chicago and is lead author
of the Great Lakes Legacy Act,
which leverages federal-private
funding partnerships for cleanups
to rehabilitate riverside and coastal
property values.
Davis received two honors for
his work in the Great Lakes region.
On June 26, he was recognized for
his work managing the Great Lakes
Advisory Board (GLAB). He helped
establish the GLAB, comprised of
business, environmental, municipal,
state and academic interests, to
ensure buy-in for GLRI investments.
On the same day, Environment &
Climate Change Canada presented
Davis with recognition for his “past,
present, and future contributions”
to Great Lakes health with the U.S.Canada Great Lakes Water Quality
Agreement.
Davis is vice president of
Consulting Engineers and Scientists,
Inc., one of the nation’s leading
geotechnical, environmental, water
resources, and ecological science and
engineering firms. He is responsible
for guiding the firm’s Upper Midwest
water quality, policy, infrastructure
and other water resources efforts.

CREW MAPPING
GREATEST WETLAND
THREATS IN DOOR
COUNTY
A four-person summer crew is
mapping invasive species populations
in the Door Peninsula Coastal
Wetlands Ramsar site to prioritize
the areas under greatest threat from
Japanese knotweed, European marsh
thistle, phragmites, reed canary grass,
glossy buckthorn and narrow-leaved

cattail, all of which are known to be a
threat to the health of these wetlands
and the native plants and animals
that depend on them.
The Nature Conservancy was
awarded a $186,200 grant from the
Sustain Our Great Lakes program
to hire the seasonal crew for two
years to control invasive species and
restore and enhance coastal wetlands
within the Door Peninsula Coastal
Wetlands Ramsar Site, a 11,443-acre
wetland complex in northern Door
County designated as a Wetland of
International Importance by the
Ramsar Convention in 2015.
The grant is being matched with
additional funding from the Nature
Conservancy and The Ridges
Sanctuary, as well as volunteer hours
donated to the project, to bring the
total funding for the project to more
than $413,600.
The crew will also map populations
of any new invasive species they find
and give native plants a boost by
controlling these invaders.
“We’re very excited about the
work this crew is doing,” said Kari
Hagenow, Nature Conservancy land
steward and coordinator of the
Door County Invasive Species Team,
“because it will allow us to make real
progress in removing some of the
worst populations of six non-native
species that are invading the coastal
wetlands in our Ramsar Wetlands
area. It also gives us the flexibility
to move quickly when we find a new
invasive that requires immediate
attention.”
Private landowners in Door County
interested in learning how to identify
and control invasive species on their
land can contact the Door County
Invasive Species Team hotline at
920.746.5955 for more information.

HISTORY

RUDYARD KIPLING

IEDS

Door County News, August 5, 1926

All items are from the Door
County Library’s newspaper
archives, and they appear in
the same form as they were first
published, including misspellings
and grammatical errors.

Door County News, August 5, 1926

The Weekly Expositor
Independent, August 6, 1880
Pier Burned. Mr. A. Anderson’s
pier at Ephraim, burned last Monday
night at 12 o’clock. The pier was one
of the best, if not the best on Green
Bay waters. The warehouse, which
contained about $500 worth of boxed
clothing, 400 bushels of wheat, 10
tons of feed, 6 barrels of sugar, coffee,
etc., were also burned with the pier.
The total loss is estimated at $4,500
or $5,000. Though nearly or quite a
total wreck, the pier will be rebuilt,
work on the same to begin at once.

Door County Democrat, August 5,
1905
Boys Struck By Lightning.
The heavy electrical storm
Thursday evening came near being the
death of three young men in the town
of Sevastopol.
Johnnie and Paul Bischno, sons of
John Bischno, ran into a barn when
the storm broke for the purpose of
getting shelter from the rain. Just
after entering the barn the building
was struck by lightning and the shock
rendered both boys unconscious. John
received the heaviest shock and did
not regain consciousness for several
hours and is still in very serious
condition.
Geo. Heidman Jr., son of Geo.
Heidman of Sevastopol, was out in
the field driving the cows home, and
was struck by lightning receiving a
very severe shock. He was rendered
unconscious, and bled from the nose,
eyes and mouth, but it is thought that
he will recover.
Door County Democrat, August 3,
1917
PARK POPULAR PLACE
Peninsula State Park is becoming
widely known throughout Wisconsin,
and Sept. A.E. Doolittle states that
thousands of people have visited it
this summer, an average of over 75
automobile parties having motored to
the park daily since the latter part of
June. Yachting parties have also found
it an ideal place at which to spend
their time, and it is a common sight to
see a number of little pleasure craft

anchored off shore, and at the docks
on the Fish Creek and Ephraim shores
of the park.
The golf links are becoming popular
and are being used almost constantly,
and are now in good condition for the
lovers of this popular sport.
Door County News, August 5, 1926
30,000 Cases Cherries Are
Packed In Day
On Friday of last week one of the
largest single day’s pack of cherries in
the history of the industry was made.
There were 30,000 cases of cherries
canned at the three factories of the
Door County Fruit Growers Canning
Co., located here and at Egg Harbor
and Sister Bay.
The trees are laden until the limbs
bend to the ground and have broken
in some instances. Not only this but
the fruit is of an exceptionally high
quality, with a very few exceptions
where slight damage was done by hail.
Door County News, August 3, 1939
GOV’T BOAT TO BE BUILT HERE
Contracts for three 48-foot
government boats have just been
awarded to Peterson Boat Works,
Fred Peterson, president, announces,
and work will be started in two weeks
to enable them to make fall delivery.
The three boats will be used
in inspection work by the U.S.
Engineering department from the
New Orleans port.
Several men will be hired to
do the work, Mr. Peterson states,
for the three boats will be built
simultaneously, there being sufficient
facilities to do so.

Regular deadline for line classifieds is noon
on Tuesday for the Friday issue. Available
at doorcountypulse.com. To submit, email
classifieds@ppulse.com or call 920.839.2121.

ANNOUNCEMENTS
LOST AND FOUND
LOST IN RECENT STORM
Yellow Current Design
single person kayak and
a tan colored triangular
piece of pier decking were
lost near Murphy Park in
recent storm. If found,
please call 414.659.3933
Lost Necklace
July 13th. Possibly lost in
Fish Creek shopping or
medical areas. Sentimental
value. Token of gratitude
in return. 920.839.2298 or
chrisw1293@gmail.com

MISCELLANEOUS
LAST CALL! Donate
nautical items!
Donate nautical items from
A to Z! to: “BOATHOUSE
SALE: Door County Maritime
Museum Classic and Wooden
Boat Festival. August 12-13
920.746.0516 or 920.743.5958
Crafters Connection
Made it another year! If you
have never visited the shop
come see us. Rag rugs, crafts,
furniture and second hand
items from 20 vendors. Open
10am-4pm. 1050 Hwy 42
Ellison Bay in the big red barn
Breast Cancer Financial
Assistance
Are you dealing with breast
cancer? Is a loved one? Do
you need screening? The Sue
Baldwin Fund, Inc. can help.
To download an application
or to learn more about
financial assistance provided
by The Sue Baldwin Fund
visit www.suebaldwinfund.
com or call 920.839.1114

The Democrat, August 3, 1893
THE NEW ASSESSMENT.
BIG INCREASE IN THE VALUATION
OF CITY PROPERTY.
The result of the work done by the
board of review of this city, which
completed its labors last week, shows
that there has been an immense
increase in the valuation of both the
personal property and real estate of
this city. This year the real estate is
valued at $546,795, and the personal
property at $365,325, making a total
of $912,118. In 1892 the total valuation
of the city was $539,262, there being
an increase during the past year of
$372,856, or about 69 percent. This
very large increase is not caused by
growth of the city, but is mainly due
to the fact that the city officers elected
last spring were pledged to reform
the method of assessment formerly in

vogue here and to assess all taxable
property at its real value.

CLA
SSIF

SERVING OUR COMMUNITY SINCE 1996

If history were taught
in the form of stories, it
would never be forgotten.”

Interested in being part of a new church?
Work on Sunday? … Worship on Monday!
Give us a call: 920-333-3544
Check out our web site: www.theorchardefca.org
www.facebook.com/TheOrchardEFCA
Now meeting on Monday evenings. Places vary.

Door County Interiors
& Design
Free Measure. Free Estimate.
Up to 25% off Hunter
Douglas Blinds. Up to 40%
off Carpeting and Tile. 7266
Highway 42 – 2 miles south
of Egg Harbor. 920.868.9008,
open 7 days a week.

PETS
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ATTEND-A-PET Professional
In-home Pet-sitting
WHERE YOUR PETS ARE
AS IMPORTANT TO US AS
THEY ARE TO YOU! Serving
northern Door County. Fully
insured & bonded, over 25
years experience. Please
call Sally at 920.854.5347.
www.attendapet.com

The Bay Lofts offer the best of Door County Living in the heart of the
waterfront district with all the amenities.
On site fitness center, club house and proximity to the many trails and parks.
Call or email to schedule your visit today!
920-333-1942/ www.TheBayLofts.com /info@urbanapex.com

Horton’s Painting and Moving
Still time to have those outside
projects finished before fall. Or
we can organize your interior
paint projects for the winter.
Also specialize in small moving
jobs. Call 920.421.4870
Pat’s Painting
Interior and exterior work.
Power washing. 26 years
experience, fully insured. Call
920.493.0345 or 920.868.3910

HELP WANTED
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CHILDCARE
Full Time Early
Childhood Educator
Early Childhood Educator
wanted as regular, full time,
year ’round teacher at
Northern Door Children’s
Center. The preferred
candidate will have an EC
degree and/or EC teaching
experience but all interested
applicants are encouraged to
apply. Must have a passion
for children, be a team player
and willing to work with all
age groups: infants, toddlers,
preschoolers and school
age children. Competitive
wage, 4 day work week.
Contact Cindy or Sue at
920.854.4244 or ndccme1@
gmail.com for an application
or forward resume to
10520 Judith Blazer Drive,
Sister Bay, WI 54234

CLASSIFIEDS
Ephraim Motel
Is looking for housekeepers.
Full time and part time.
Housing available. Apply in
person or call 920.421.1859

HEALTH CARE
Case ManagerBehavioral Health
Door County Human Services
seeks candidates for FT Case
Manager. Qualified candidates
for this position will have a
Bachelor’s Degree in Social
Work, Psychology or a related
human services field; have
supervisory experience
working with individuals with
mental illness and substance
abuse disorders. Will perform
intake functions and screens
individuals. Primary focus on
these positions will be either
(a) supporting individuals
served by the county’s
emergency mental health
crisis system, (b) supporting
individuals enrolled in the
comprehensive community
services program, (c) adding
support to individuals with
the Adult Protective Service/
Adults at Risk System. $22.56/
hour. Excellent benefits. Apply
on-line at www.co.door.
wi.gov. Deadline: August
14, 2017 – 4:30pm EOE

2nd Shift Front Desk
– AmericInn
Prior front desk/administration
experience and computer
skills are a plus but not
required. Individual must have
great customer service and
communication skills. Position
demands a self-motivated
individual adept at problem
solving. Starts at $10/HR, year
round, part-time with every
other weekend off 24-32
hrs/week. Apply in person.
The Hilltop Inn-Front
Desk Position
The Hilltop Inn is looking to
fill a part time Front Desk
position. Weekday evening
and both weekend shifts
available. Benefits include
above average starting
pay, end of season bonus
and paid holidays. Stop in
to apply at 3908 County
Road F Fish Creek or
email interest to manager.
hilltopinn@gmail.com

HOTEL/LODGING
Gordon Lodge is Hiring!
Enjoy a beautiful, friendly work
environment, competitive
hourly wages and a 50%
discount on meals at Top
Deck. Experience is a plus,
but not required. Looking
for full and part time
housekeepers, full and part
time front desk staff, event
bartenders and event wait
staff. Housing and bonus
available. Visit us at http://
gordonlodge.com/ to print
and fill out an application or
pick one up. Email application
to glodge@gordonlodge.
com. Please reference the
department you are applying
for in the subject line.

procedures. Social media &
computer skills. Knowledge
Of Logical Solution &
OTAs is s plus but not
necessary. Wednesday &
Weekends required @$12$14/hr. Email: lynne@
applecreekresort.com
Questions: 920.421.0663
AmericInn Sturgeon
Bay – Night Audit
The night auditor is
responsible for performing
all end of day reports, setting
up breakfast, assisting in
laundry and accommodating
hotel guests from the hours
of 11 pm to 7 am; alternate
weekends required. Year
round with wage premium.
Starting at $11 or more
depending on experience.
Apply in person today!
Housekeeper- Julie’s
Park Cafe & Motel
Julie’s in Fish Creek is looking
for a part time or full time
housekeeper. Stop in or call
920.868.2999 to apply.

LANDSCAPING/
MAINTENANCE

High Point Inn Has
Immediate Openings!
High Point Inn in Ephraim is
looking for the right motivated
individual to join our team
in the following year-round
positions: Housekeeper:
Full-time and Part-time. Front
Desk Representative: Part
Time. High Point Inn offers
a competitive wage and
employer matched SIMPLE
IRA. For more information, call
Missy or Faye at 854.9773, or
stop by for an application.
Front Desk Fish Creek Hotel
Learn to Perform Front
Desk/Duties. Self Starter,
Attention to details, Follow

MISCELLANEOUS
Boys & Girls Club
Hiring Fall Staff
Boys & Girls Club of
Door County imagines a
community where all young
people experience health,
academic success and good
character. Multiple part-time
Fall 2017-18 positions are
detailed at bgcdoorcounty.
org/employment. Positions

Help Wanted –
Firewood Bundler
Person needed to
bundle firewood. Flexible
hours. Must have own
transportation. Paid per
bundle. 920.746.0122

920.823.2777
Mini, Large, and Drop off Boat Storage
For heated and custom built space/units
call 920.819.4988

Registration should take between 30 and 60 minutes. Students must attend with a
parent or guardian during a time that works best for you on either of these days.
egistration should take between 30 and 60 minutes. Students must attend with a
Registration should take between 30 and 60 minutes. Students must attend with a
Registration should take between 30 and 60 minutes. Students must attend with a
parent or guardian during a time that works best for you on either of these days.
parent or guardian during a time that works best for you on either of these days.
arent or guardian during a time that works best for you on either of these days.
parent or guardian during a time that works best for you on either of these days.

Many transportation services have been implemented/expanded
in the past 10 years. Now is the time to plan for the next 10 years!

Your Input is Needed by August 11, 2017

Complete a Survey for a Chance to WIN a Gift Card
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/DoorCountyNeedsAssessment
Surveys may also be obtained by contacting Door-Tran at:
1009 Egg Harbor Road in Sturgeon Bay or
call 920/743-9999 or email info@door-tran.org
Surveys can also be obtained from any of the following team members:
City of Sturgeon Bay, Door-Tran,
Door County Human Services or Senior Community Center,
NWTC and United Way of Door County
This project is funded in part by Easterseals Project Action Consultants. Results of the
Survey’s will be reviewed during a two-day planning meeting in late August.

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or call 920-854-2353

Gibraltar Secondary School
3924 State Hwy 42, Fish Creek, WI
3924 State Hwy 42, Fish Creek, WI
Student registration for the 2017-2018 school year will occur on
Student registration for the 2017-2018 school year will occur on
Student registration for the 2017-2018 school year will occur on
Student registration for the 2017-2018 school year will occur on
Tuesday, August 8
Student registration for the 2017-2018 school year will occur on
Tuesday, August 8
Tuesday, August 8
Tuesday, August 8
11 am to 2 pm
and 3 pm to 7 pm
Tuesday, August 8
11 am to 2 pm
and 3 pm to 7 pm
3 pm to 7 pm
11 am to 2 pm
and
11 am to 2 pm
and 3 pm to 7 pm
Wednesday, August 9
11 am to 2 pm
and 3 pm to 7 pm
Wednesday, August 9
Wednesday, August 9
Wednesday, August 9
9 am to 12 pm
and 1 pm to 4 pm
Wednesday, August 9
9 am to 12 pm
and 1 pm to 4 pm
9 am to 12 pm
and
1 pm to 4 pm
9 am to 12 pm
1 pm to 4 pm
9 am to 12 pm and
and 1 pm to 4 pm
Registration should take between 30 and 60 minutes. Students must attend with a
3924 State Hwy 42, Fish Creek, WI
Gibraltar Secondary School
3924 State Hwy 42, Fish Creek, WI
3924 State Hwy 42, Fish Creek, WI

Sister Bay warehouse
year round positions
e-tailer, inc. seeks staff for
our Sister Bay warehouse
to help serve our growing
national customer base.
These are year-round
positions. Friendly and casual
work environment. Full time
or part time. Starting $12/
hour. Warehouse staff can
quickly earn up to $20/
hour based on measured
productivity. This is a job
which requires you to be
on your feet for extended
periods of time. Contact
jobs@etailerinc.com

Year round jobs Sister Bay
– weekend and 2nd shift
e-tailer, inc. is growing fast
– we are adding weekend
and second shifts in our
Sister Bay warehouse.
Packing small parcels to
serve our national customer
base. Year-round positions.
Full or part time. Flexible
scheduling. Friendly and
casual work environment.
Also seeking day shift
workers. Starting $12/hour.
Warehouse staff can quickly
earn up to $20/hour based
on measured productivity.
Contact jobs@etailerinc.com

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DISTRICT REGISTRATION DAYS
For ALL STUDENTS PreK-12
For ALL STUDENTS PreK-12
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The Door County YMCA,
Sturgeon Bay Program Center,
has a full-time opportunity
to build relationships and
improve member services

in our great organization.
Customer service background
is necessary; associates
degree in business or a related
field is preferred. Starting pay
$28-31,000 per year, with a
full benefit package. Interested
applicants can apply by
August 7, 2017. Visit our
website: DoorCountyYMCA.
org for more information.
Friends of Peninsula seeking
new Business Manager
Exciting opportunity to join
the Friends of Peninsula State
Park. Seeking motivated,
hard working and creative
person with an interest in
nature and recreation. Send
cover letter and resume to
tillyistheone@yahoo.com by
August 16th 2017. Find details
at www.peninsulafriends.org
Office Opening
Office position working
with database software as
well as Access, Word, Excel
and MSOutlook. Accuracy,
organizational skills, ability
to meet deadlines, and
attention to detail are a must.
Benefits: retirement plan,
health insurance stipend,
year-end bonus plan, 40
hr week (4 – 9 hr days &
4 hr Fridays). Competitive
wage. Send application to:
Whitetails Unlimited, Attn.:
Office Manager, PO Box 720,
Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235
Door County Child Support
Administrative Supervisor
Management position
responsible for supervising,
coordinating, planning and
directing activities of staff.

Back to Basics Market Farm

Finally!!

Investment & Farm Real Estate

5th and Jefferson
Coffee House
Has an immediate opening
to fill a year-round, weekday
30-38 hour position. Desired
qualities are self-starter,
mature, excellent with
people, team approach
and ability to multi-task
well. Duties will include
baking, cooking, barista
(will train). If qualified, email
resume to 5thandjefferson@
gmail.com or pick up an
application from 8-5. 232
N. 5th Ave Sturgeon Bay.
Server- Julie’s Park Cafe
Julie’s in Fish Creek is looking
for a server that can work
until mid to end of October.
Must be able to work mainly
nights. Please stop in or call
920.868.2999 to apply.
Kitchen & Dining Room Staff
The Clearing in Ellison Bay
has part-time openings
on its kitchen/dining room

The Cookery – Hosts
The Cookery Restaurant
is hiring hosts for the fall
season. Morning and/or
night shifts available. Parttime or full-time. Work in a
family run, fun, fast paced
environment in downtown
Fish Creek. Contact
Courtney at 920.868.3634

Door County
window Cleaning

A job you can show up to wearing leggings or
joggers. Twisted Tree at the Pharm considers
dressing for success to mean wearing a hoodie
and running shoes to work!! We know that
comfortable people are creative people, so bring
your positive attitude, your creative mind, your
strong work ethic and go out on a limb...

Staudenmaier Chiropractic Wellness Center,
S.C. is searching for an office receptionist who is
enthusiastic, knowledgeable, friendly, and able
to multi-task, to add to our team at
our fast-paced clinic.
Interested candidates should email their cover letter
and resume to: OM@BackToWellness.org

Bussers & Dishwashers

30 N. 18th Ave., Suite #3, Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235
(920) 743-7255

Stop for Application
of Call 854-2841

staff. Hours are flexible.
Pay is competitive. Work
environment is pleasant. The
season runs through October.
Call Mike at 920.854.4088 or
email mike@theclearing.org
Wild Tomato
Wild Tomato is looking for
some new faces to join
our team! Looking for Fall
and Winter servers, hosts,
and carry-out cashiers.
Interested? Contact sara@
wildtomatopizza.com or
stop by our Fish Creek
or Sister Bay location.
Line Cooks
Boathouse on the Bay is
seeking experienced line
cooks. Full-Time and PartTime year round/seasonal
positions are available. Open
for lunch and dinner daily.
Competitive wages. Well
structured new kitchen led
by Head Chef and General
Manager. Come be part of
Door County’s best new
waterfront creation. Apply in
person 10716 N. Bay Shore
Dr. Sister Bay or call Mike
920.421.0498. Resume to
Mike@boathousedcw.com
The Clubhouse Grill at
Stonehedge Golf Egg Harbor
Now hiring bartenders & wait
staff. Full time & part time.
Open year round. Experience
not necessary-will train. All
applicants welcome. Flexible
hours and competitive
wages. Please stop in or call
to apply. 4320 County Rd E,
Egg Harbor. 920.868.3398

PC Junction
Help wanted: nights
– waitstaff & kitchen
help. Flexible hours. Call
Denise 920.421.0865
Mill Supper Club
Looking for servers, bussers
and dishwashers 3 to 4
nights a week. Call Don or
Shelly at 920.743.5044
Horseshoe Bay Golf Club
Horseshoe Bay Golf Club
is looking to fill several
positions. Looking for full time
servers, bartenders, as well
as line cooks. Applications
available online at www.
horseshoebaygolfclub.net
Shoreline Restaurant
Help wanted. Hostesses,
bussers, bartenders,
dishwashers, sous chef,
line cooks and prep
cooks. Call Mike or Mary
421.0355 or 421.0365
Top Deck is Hiring!
Enjoy a beautiful, friendly work
environment, competitive
hourly wages and a 50%
discount on meals at Top Deck.
Experience is a plus, but not
required. Looking for Host/
Hostess, wait staff, bussers,
dishwashers, bartenders, line
and prep cooks, breakfast
cooks and breakfast
attendants. Housing and bonus
available. Visit us at http://
gordonlodge.com/ to print
and fill out an application or
pick one up. Email application
to glodge@gordonlodge.
com. Please reference the
department you are applying
for in the subject line.

Help WantedGreens N Grains
We are looking for a parttime year round salesperson.
Knowledge and interest in
health and natural products
is required. Besides working
with customers, checking
out, opening and closing, this
position would also be our
produce manager. Must be
able to carry 40# boxes up
and down stairs, must have
a good knowledge of and
love for fresh produce and
an eye for creating displays.
*Please email your resume to:
info@Greens-N-Grains.com,
or mail to Greens N Grains,
PO box 225, Egg Harbor,
WI 54209 or stop in for an
application- 7821 Hwy 42,
Egg Harbor. 920.868.9999
Bluefront Cafe
Hiring lunch hot line cook.
Competitive wages. Seasonal
or year round possibility. Call
Susan 262.893.2134 or email
bluefront86@gmail.com

RETAIL
Red Oak – Wine Server
Red Oak Winery is looking for
a year round part time sales
position. If you are looking for
a rewarding job that requires
customer interaction and
great conversations give us
a call. Red Oak is a growing
business and needs sales
personnel. Weekends and
Holidays are required as this
is a tourists based business.
Computer skills required.
Compensation based on
experience. 920.743.7729

TECHNOLOGY
Network Technician
Door County Technology
Services Dept. seeks
candidates to install,
configure, and trouble
shoot networking and
microcomputer hardware and
software systems, including
telephone systems and
providing technical assistance
and training to users. Post
high school training in
data processing, computer
software and hardware, and
networking. Minimum of
one year of progressive work
experience with personal
computers, or Microsoft
Certification. Minimum of one
year of experience with PC
Client / PC Server. Minimum
of year of experience
working with Ethernet
network hardware and
switching methodologies.
Minimum Associates degree
in computer related field
strongly preferred. Starting
$22.56/hr. Excellent benefits
Apply on-line at www.co.door.
wi.gov. Deadline: August
9, 2017, 4:30 p.m. EOE

A Door County Waterfront Resort

Stone Harbor is looking for some energetic
team members in the following departments.
• Full Time/All year Saute’ Cook
• Full Time Maintenance/Engineer Person
• Housekeeping Full & Part Time
• Front Desk Full & Part Time
If you are looking for work all year around and a
fun family oriented team, see us today!
Apply in person!

This is a 1.0 FTE secondary teaching position.
• Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction Licensure (1400 Math)
• Gibraltar Area School District is committed to fostering a learning
environment that promotes instructional excellence, student achievement
and academic rigor. We offer a competitive salary and benefit package to
highly-qualified professionals. Additional financial incentives are available
to educators earning advanced degrees. • The Gibraltar Area School
District is seeking a dynamic and innovative educator who can create
an engaging classroom environment that challenges all students to high
levels of learning and achievement. Essential to this position is the ability
to work collaboratively with colleagues as part of a professional learning
community, build positive relationships with students and families and
partnership with local businesses, artists and community volunteers in
order to foster enriching learning experiences for all students.

This teaching position begins with the 2017-18 school year.
Letter of Interest* • Resume • Three (3) current letters
of reference–dated within the past 3 years • Three (3)
references with phone numbers
*(Internal applicants only need to send a letter of interest)

Apply in person or call
920.421.1859
Town of Jacksonport Part time Position
The Town of Jacksonport is seeking applications for the part time position
of Town Clerk/Treasurer. Average 20 hour work week. Salary plus meeting
per-diems.
Qualifications:
Education: Associate degree in business, human resources, or accounting OR
comparable work experience in one of these areas is required.
Valid Wisconsin Driver’s License. Must be bondable.
Experience:
• Three to five years of experience in financial management, budget
preparation, accounting, personnel, or administration.
• Working knowledge of government budgeting, finance, public
relations preferred.
• Strong oral and written communications skills.
• Working knowledge and proficiency with Microsoft Word and Excel
required. Working knowledge of QuickBooks a plus.
A complete job description can be obtained by calling the town office
at 920-823-8136, by e-mail request sent to jtownclerk@jportfd.com, or
by visiting the town website at Jacksonport.org (see homepage under
“spotlight”).
Please submit a current resume with a cover letter summarizing experience,
along with the contact information for three work related references to:
Elissa Taylor, Town Clerk
Town of Jacksonport
3365 CTY V
Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235
The deadline for submitting your resume and cover letter is August 21st,
2017. Expected start date in the position would be October 1, 2017.

FINANCIAL DEPARTMENT MANAGER
Position open to head a three-person
accounting department for nonprofit organization. Bachelor’s degree in accounting is
required and the ability to work with minimal supervision. Working with Sage/MAS90
accounting software or similar software as
well as Word and Excel are important. Strong
written, verbal, interpersonal and customer
relations skills needed. Must be organized,
detail-oriented, hard working with proven
team building experience. Salary is commensurate with skills and experience.
Benefits include retirement plan,
monthly health insurance stipend, vacation,
paid holidays, and 40-hour work week
(four 9-hour days & 4-hour Fridays).
Interested candidates should email a resume
and cover letter including salary requirements to
khartwig@whitetailsunlimited.com
Deadline to apply is August 7, 2017
Whitetails Unlimited is an equal opportunity employer

Little Sweden has an opportunity for an
Administrative Assistant.
We are a year-round resort. The Administrative Assistant
assists the General Manager and office management staff
in the following areas: resort operations, sales, front desk
procedures, account maintenance, and other duties
as assigned.
The ideal candidate will possess: experience in office
procedures, excellent customer service skills, effective
communication skills, ability to multi-task and work in a
fast paced environment, excellent time management and
problem-solving skills. We will provide guidance
and training.
We offer a generous salary, flexible hours and excellent
benefits package and the opportunity to work with a great
team at one of the best resorts in Door County.
Please email resume to kaylee@hedeen.com or call
Kay Hedeen 920-743-7225